Death and the Dancing Footman
First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Roderick Alleyn |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown (US) Collins Crime Club (UK) |
Publication date | 1941 (US) 1942 (UK) |
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| Preceded by | Surfeit of Lampreys |
| Followed by | Colour Scheme |
Death and the Dancing Footman is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, the eleventh of her Roderick Alleyn books and was first published in 1941 in the US by Little Brown of Boston and in 1942 in the UK by Collins Crime Club. It was written in New Zealand, but set in a Dorset, England country house.
The novel received good reviews from The New York Times, and Britain's The Observer and The Tatler. It was hailed by the New Zealand Listener as "Miss Marsh's favourite among her own books".