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  <title><![CDATA[Death of a Fool (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave their blades in an ancient ritual dance. But for one of them, the excitement proves too heady, and his decapitation turns the fertility rite into a pageant of death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must penetrate not only the mysteries of folklore, but the secrets and sins of an eccentric group who include a surly blacksmith, a domineering dowager, and a not-so-simple village idiot.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 07 18:11:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 25 15:23:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read two Ngaio Marsh mysteries now, and both have focused on a death that seems to have occured in plain sight of all the witnesses.  Interesting limits to work within.  <br/>This one was considerably better than the other.  The characters were much more appealing, and I found the writing to b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19682434">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 12 01:43:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Final Curtain, but nothing is. Little too creepy and the folklore was too hard to track. ]]></body>
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    <review id="58177975">
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    <body><![CDATA[Took a while for me to get into it, but once I did, it was a typical Marsh read--fun and well written.]]></body>
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    <review id="67143943">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as &quot;Off With His Head&quot;. Thought it was quite fab really.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a huge Agatha Christie fan, I was urged to also read Marsh's books. I truly enjoy them, and find her to be as enjoyable as Dame Aggie herself. ]]></body>
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    <review id="7534614">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Marsh fans, Peter Dickinson fans, Dorothy Sayers fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brit-mystery and comedy of manners with an interesting anthropological backdrop, the Dance of the Fool, which harkens back to Lear and the archetypes in Frazer of the Fisher King, birth,death, regeneration.  Great fun.]]></body>
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    <review id="18795060">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of the Roderick Alleyn series by Marsh are terrific.  The characters and relationships are so vivid and the story keeps you guessing to the end. ]]></body>
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    <review id="755249">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the relationship between the protagonist: Alleyn, and his side-kick: brer Fox. Unique in detective fiction, as far as I can tell.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 26 07:44:48 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Ngaio Marsh. I think I am just too preoccupied with other things to get into it. I'll try again later.]]></body>
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