Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham: Nasty pranks were being played on dancer Jimmy Sutane, star of London's Argosy Theatre. They began backstage as tuppenny-ha'penny squirts of malice. They became a pound's worth of trouble when they spread to the Sutanes' country estate. Someone wanted Jimmy's famous feet to tap their final performance. The aging actress with a secret past? The ambitious understudy? The muscular lady masseuse who longed to rub Jimmy the right way? Or the eccentric songwriter who just composed "Pavane to a Dead Dancer"? Campion could guess the identity of the trickster. But he never dreamed the big showstopper would be murder--and a case that promised to test his mind and break his heart.
Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click titles for reviews):
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer
The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Richard L. Boyer
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Up Next:
A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh
What Alice Knew by Paula Marantz Cohen
Past Tense by Catherine Aird
Another productive week of reading. When do you find the time?
ReplyDeleteYour list of books of what you read each week puts mine to shame!! Dancers in Mourning sounds interesting too.
ReplyDeleteHere's my WWW:
http://thebookgatherer.blogspot.com/2011/05/www-wednesdays_11.html