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Alan Melville (1910-1983) was a well-known television broadcaster, as well as a playwright, producer and several crime novels from the 1930s, often set in the popular entertainment he knew at first hand. Quick Curtain and Death of Anton were reissued as British Library Crime Classics in 2015.
"This story about guests gathered at a country house for the weekend, originally published in 1934, anticipates Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which appeared five years later...British crime novelist Martin Edwards provides his usual insightful introduction to this latest addition to the British Library Crime Classics series, letting readers know that Raymond Chandler was a huge fan of this novel. Bubbly social satire sets off a clockwork plot." (starred review)--Connie Fletcher "Booklist "
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