False Scent
Publisher: Jove
Published: December 1, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780515080568
Subjects: Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery & Detective - General; Mystery/Suspense; Fiction
First sentence: WHEN SHE died it was as if all the love she had inspired in so many people suddenly blossomed.
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...