num_pages: 224
description: In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen.Little did beloved British actress Mary Bellamy know that she would be done in at her own birthday party-choked by toxic mist from the bottle of "Slaypest," a deadly insecticide. Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans-who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies-Mary would make her final performance. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types detained at the party, for this case has the unmistakable scent of murder...
language: English
title: False Scent
titlecomplete: False Scent (Roderick Alleyn, #21)
characters: Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1933
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter