Download or read book False Scent written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved British actress Mary Bellamy is done in at her own birthday party--choked by toxic mist from the bottle of a deadly insecticide. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types--for the case has the unmistakable scent of murder.