A Wreath For Rivera

By Ngaio Marsh

Subjects: Police, German Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction, Translations from English, Large type books, Large Print, London (england), fiction, Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction in English New Zealand writers, 1907- - Texts, Fiction, Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character), Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character)

Description: Lord Pastern invited his society friends to a swank London nightclub to watch him stage one of his bizarre jokes. But when the joke turned in the "accidental" death of a band member, the laughter stopped. For the audience, it was an open-and-shut case. Everyone had seen the eccentric lord fire the gun. For Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard, this case was more bizarre than his lordship's joke - for it wasn't a bullet that killed the accordian player!