Final Curtain

A Shakespearean actor shuffles off his mortal coil in this "skillfully wrought" country-house mystery (The New York Times).

Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work ends and Inspector Alleyn's begins.

"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." —New York Magazine

"A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery." —Kirkus Reviews