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'Miss Marsh triumphs.' Daily Telegraph 'High-spirited, amusing .. neatly contrived from start to finish.' New Statesman 'As high-spirited and amusing as Surfeit of Lampreys.' New Statesman

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In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen.

Little did beloved British actress Mary Bellamy know that she would be done in at her own birthday party-choked by toxic mist from the bottle of "Slaypest," a deadly insecticide. Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans-who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies-Mary would make her final performance. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types detained at the party, for this case has the unmistakable scent of murder...