Death And The Dancing Footman: Ngaio Marsh

Roderick Alleyn No. 11. A host, with a wry sense of humour, assembled a party including seven people with very good reasons for killing each other, in a snowbound English country house. The victim was one of the seven - but had he been mistaken for someone else? The suspects all had alibis, for no-one could've committed the murder without passing the dancing footman - and no-one had passed him. By the time Alleyn arrived, it was apparent that the crime could not have happened... Cover art by Philip Hood.