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Albert Campion finds himself tangled up in the theatre world but when the curtain falls, who will be left standing?
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Strange pranks are being played on dancer Jimmy Sutane, star of London's Argosy Theatre. When they spread to the Sutanes' country estate, it becomes apparent that someone wants Jimmy's famous feet to tap their final dance. Campion never dreamed the big show-stopper would be murder--and a case that promises to test his mind and break his heart.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This is possibly my favourite Allingham novel. It gets closer to realism than many of her plots, partly due to a cast of characters whose lives are believably extraordinary without further ornament. It's a theatre novel, with a bit of London and a bit of quirky country-house mystery. The characters are involving enough to maintain genuine suspense right up to the final pages. And the whole thing is a kind of elegy for the short period of mad bad high life for the few between the world wars - Oh those dance band days!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Murder or accident? The brittle world of a Thirties song and dance star is under threat from more than one source, and with it a great many livelihoods. This novel is about making a killing, in more ways than one. Egos and reputations and salaries are at stake, and there are no heroes except Magersfontein Lugg, Nannie and maid of all work, who has hardly anything to do with the detection but provides a solid oak to cling to when the rest of the forest is full of wolves... This novel, first published in 1937, is very much of its period but very readable, with crisp, precise writing and a Campion less coolly confident than usual. Incidentally, Uncle William Faraday (Police at the Funeral), features as the surprised, successful of a West End Hit, 'The Buffer'. He hasn't changed a bit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Margery Allingham demonstrates her ability to write about a whole variety of subjects, complete with characters she brings to life and plots which will have you puzzling on to the end of the book. Plus it is told with her wonderful command of the English language. Matthew Smith
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