Final Curtain
Published on 12. November 2020
308 pages
978-1-937384-48-7 (ISBN)
Description
A Shakespearean actor shuffles off his mortal coil in this "skillfully wrought" country-house mystery (
The New York Times).
Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work ends and Inspector Alleyn's begins...
"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." - New York Magazine
"A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery." - Kirkus Reviews
Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work ends and Inspector Alleyn's begins...
"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." - New York Magazine
"A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery." - Kirkus Reviews
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By Ngaio Marsh
Content
- Intro
- CHAPTER ONE Siege of Troy
- CHAPTER TWO Departure
- CHAPTER THREE Ancreton
- CHAPTER FOUR Sir Henry
- CHAPTER FIVE The Bloody Child
- CHAPTER SIX Paint
- CHAPTER SEVEN Fiesta
- CHAPTER EIGHT Big Exit
- CHAPTER NINE Alleyn
- CHAPTER TEN Bombshell from Thomas
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Alleyn at Ancreton
- CHAPTER TWELVE The Bell and the Book
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Spotlight on Cedric
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Psychiatry and a Churchyard
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN New System
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Positively the Last Appearance of Sir Henry Ancred
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Escape of Miss O.
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Last Appearance of Miss O.
- CHAPTER NINETEEN Final Curtain
