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Language English Publisher Lee Furman (US) Media type Print () Followed by Death at the Bar | 3.9/5 Goodreads Series Roderick Alleyn Publication date 1939 Originally published 1939 Preceded by Death in a White Tie Genre Detective fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overture to Death is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the eighth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1939. The plot concerns a murder during a village theatrical performance; Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor plays a prominent part in the story. So does a "Venetian Suite" by Ethelbert Nevin. The murder weapon is a pistol hidden in a piano.
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