β Scribed by Ngaio Marsh
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this, the first of Marsh's justifiably famous theatre-mysteries, Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night by his journalist friend Nigel Bathgate. In the play, two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, on this particular performance, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks.
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