Title: A bullet in the ballet
Description: I found This description in "1,000 Books To Read Before you Die" by James Mustich ((c) 2018):

 "A Wildly Choreographed Comic Mystery:

 "This distinctively funny British novel—the first in a series of four centering on the fortunes of impresario Vladimir Stroganoff and his rambunctious ballet troupe—delivers comedy in high style....Stroganoff and his dancers are remarkable largely for their off-stage antics and their unbridled eccentricities...While [this] is a murder mystery replete with corpses, suspects, interrogations, and revelations, suspense plays second fiddle to the decidedly screwball melody."
Subjects: British, mystery, ballet, comic mystery, Police, Fiction, Fiction, general
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1930s