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...
- ISBN10 0312968981
- ISBN13 9780312968984
- Publish Date 15 April 1999 (first published 1 December 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 224
- Language English