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The Act of Roger Murgatroyd : An Entertainment

Englisch

The act of Roger Murgatroyd

Faber + Faber Verlag

0571226388

9780571226382

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Boxing Day circa 1935. A Christmas party at a snowed-in manor on the edge of Dartmoor. Overhead, in the attic, lies the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars, and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon.
Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately) one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the best-selling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written...