Death and the Dancing Footman

Death and the Dancing Footman is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, the eleventh of her Roderick Alleyn books and a classic example of the Country house mystery. Written in New Zealand, but set in a Dorset (England) country house, it was first published in 1941 (America) and 1942 (Britain), receiving rave reviews from The New York Times, and Britain's The Observer and The Tatler and hailed by the New Zealand Listener as "Miss Marsh's favourite among her own books".

Death and the Dancing Footman
First edition (UK)
AuthorNgaio Marsh
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoderick Alleyn
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherLittle, Brown (US)
Collins Crime Club (UK)
Publication date
1941 (US)
1942 (UK)
Media typePrint
Preceded bySurfeit of Lampreys 
Followed byColour Scheme 
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