Search -
Death of a Fool (aka Off With His Head) (Roderick Alleyn, Bk 19)
Death of a Fool - aka Off With His Head - Roderick Alleyn, Bk 19 Author:Ngaio Marsh AN ANCIENT DANCE MACABRE — Strangers were definitely not welcome at the South Mardian Sword Dance. Every winter solstice, an elite group of village men performed this heathen ritual sacrifice in the Castle courtyard. No one quite remembered what it meant, with its flashing swords, its incantations, its exotic fertility symbols ... — When someone a... more »t the dance was murdered, Inspector Alleyn ruled out magic as the killer. And as he delved into the bizarre happenings, he learned a surprising amount about English folk dancing - especially when he found a way to make a corpse dance ...« less