By Ngaio Marsh

London: The Thriller Book Club edition, no date [circa early 1950s].

First edition thus.

Crimp to the upper spine, corner tips mildly bumped, text extremities tanned, as expected, else a  copy in a red linen over boards binding, spine lettering in black; in a near fine dust jacket with minor edge wear.

The attractive jacket art has been completely redesigned for this edition.

The 16th book in the Roderick Alleyn series.

"From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead -- there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn sets to work assembling a cast of suspects for the final curtain."--Fantastic Fiction.

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