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      Overture to Death

      by Ngaio Marsh
      Published
      Jan 1939
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      319
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      A Roderick Alleyn Mystery Book 8

      About This Book

      Just before the curtain went up on an amateur production to raise money for a new church piano, the old one went off with a bang--polishing off a local spinster as she struck the opening chords of the overture. The suspects were familiar figures in any English village: the squire, the parson, the church hen, the local doctor. It was left to Inspector Alleyn to determine which of these quite ordinary characters was capable of a most extraordinary murder.

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      Book 8
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      Suspense

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      Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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      Locked Room Mystery

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