Among the guests at the Plume of Feathers on the memorable evening
 of the murder were a West End matinée idol, a successful portrait 
painter, an Oxford-educated farmer’s daughter, a radical organizer
 and assorted rustics and villagers. Each of them had an opportunity
 to place the deadly poison on the dart that seemingly had been the
 instrument of murder. But no one admitted seeing any suspicious
 movement on the part of anyone else. And what exactly had been 
the method of the killer? This was the problem Inspector Alleyn
 had to solve — and he does so with all of his accustomed verve
 and brilliance
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