Title: False Scent
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...
Subjects: Fiction in English, Fiction, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction
Places: Great Britain, England