Overture to Death
First US edition | |
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Roderick Alleyn |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Geoffrey Bles Lee Furman (US) |
Publication date | 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Death in a White Tie |
| Followed by | Death at the Bar |
Overture to Death is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the eighth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1939. The plot concerns a murder during an amateur theatrical performance in a Dorset village, which Alleyn and his colleague Fox are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate and duly solve.