Final Curtain (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
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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 тАУ in the person of TroyтАЩs long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn...
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio MarshтАЩs real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand publicтАЩs interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her тАШdameryтАЩ in 1966.
