A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel.Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in – in the person of Troy’s long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn…
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Ngaio Marsh. Final Curtain
Final Curtain
Dedication
Contents
Cast of Characters
1. Siege of Troy
2. Departure
3. Ancreton
4. Sir Henry
5. The Bloody Child
6. Paint
7. Fiesta
8. Big Exit
9. Alleyn
10. Bombshell from Thomas
11. Alleyn at Ancreton
12. The Bell and the Book
13. Spotlight on Cedric
14. Psychiatry and a Churchyard
15. New System
16. Positively the Last Appearance of Sir Henry Ancred
17. Escape of Miss O
18. The Last Appearance of Miss O
19. Final Curtain
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Also by the Author
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‘She’s my niece, you know. My sister Pauline’s youngest. We call her Panty because her bloomers are always coming down. She’s a Difficult Child. Her school, which is a school for Difficult Children, was evacuated to Ancreton. They are quartered in the west wing under a very nice person called Caroline Able. Panty is frightful.’
‘Oh,’ said Troy, as he seemed to expect some comment.
