Death at the Dolphin (First UK Hardback Edition)
Condition: GoodSome wear and minor tearing to the dust jacket - otherwise in good condition.
"The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death - and one of Marsh's most vivid and dramatic novels.
When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play about it.
But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, the glove is stolen. Could it be that oil and water don't mix? Inspector Roderick Alleyn is determined to find out…"
This 1967 Collins Crime Club hardback edition of Ngaio Marsh's mystery - a UK first edition - is in good condition. There's some wear and minor tearing to the dust jacket, along with the usual page tanning and spotting with books these age.
