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| | Amazon.com: Books: Vintage Murder (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery) |
 | | Meyer *seems* oblivious to all this, and after a successful run in Middleton (fictional city), arranges an elaborate birthday party for Carolyn, with an eye toward publicity, and including a flashy gimmick of lowering a huge champagne bottle from the rafters. |
 | | Dacres is the sparkling leading lady; her middle-aged, humdrum husband, Alfred Meyer, runs the business end of the company. |
 | | At this point in his career, Alleyn had only had one murder case entangled with the world of the theatre - _Enter a Murderer_, which occurred 2 years before this story opens - so the matter of the earlier case (and the name of the murderer) are mentioned several times. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312971796?v=glance (1686 words) |
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