The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death - and one of Marsh's most vivid and dramatic novels
When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play about it.
But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, the glove is stolen. Could it be that oil and water don't mix? Inspector Roderick Alleyn is determined to find out...
- ISBN10 0006167918
- ISBN13 9780006167914
- Publish Date 12 March 1992 (first published May 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk