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Close to 4 stars this, and probably my favourite Marsh thus far. Stop me if you've heard this one but, as usual, she starts brilliantly in terms of an intriguing country house set up and vivid cast of feuding and spiteful characters, and then it's a slow but steady decline to the final reveal especially after the murder is committed. In this one though, the decline is more gradual than usual, and it isn't simply a sharp fall off a cliff the minute a body shows up and Alleyn arrives to conduct a
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