Ngaio Marsh
INSPECTOR ALLEYN 3-BOOK COLLECTION:
Off With His Head, Singing in the Shrouds, False Scent

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Off With His Head first published in Great Britain by Collins 1957 Singing in the Shrouds first published in Great Britain by Collins 1958 False Scent first published in Great Britain by Collins 1960 My Poor Boy first published in Great Britain in Death on the Air and Other Stories by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1956, 1958,1960

My Poor Boy copyright © Ngaio Marsh (Jersey) Ltd 1989

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Off With His Head

Singing in the Shrouds

False Scent

BONUS STORY: My Poor Boy

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

Off With His Head

Contents

Title Page

Cast of Characters

Author’s Note

1. Winter Solstice

2. Camilla

3. Preparation

4. The Swords Are Out

5. Aftermath

6. Copse Forge

7. The Green Man

8. Question of Fact

9. Question of Fancy

10. Dialogue for a Dancer

11. Question of Temperament

12. The Swords Again

13. The Swords Go In

Author’s Note

To anybody with the smallest knowledge of folklore it will be obvious that the Dance of the Five Sons is a purely imaginary synthesis combining in most unlikely profusion the elements of several dances and mumming plays. For information on these elements I am indebted, among many other sources, to England’s Dances by Douglas Kennedy and Introduction to English Folklore by Violet Alford.

N.M.

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