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"False Scent" 1959 MARSH, Ngaio
$45
MARSH, Ngaio
[273] pp.
Little, Brown and Company
1959
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by Rita Derjue
False Scent is a detective novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1959, by Collins in the UK and Little, Brown in the USA. The plot concerns the murder of a West End stage actress during her 50th birthday party, and continues Marsh's fascination with the theatre and with acting.