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Violence
Barely any
A murder during a snowbound house party; classic Golden Age treatment
Language
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Witty, period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic subplot
Substance Use
None
Social drinking at a country house gathering
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
The isolation and the host's calculated malice provide quietly unsettling tension
What this book is about
Jonathan Royal assembles a houseful of people who actively despise each other, seemingly to observe the results. When a blizzard cuts the manor house off from the outside world and murder follows, Alleyn must work with limited resources in a brilliantly constructed puzzle. Death and the Dancing Footman is Marsh's most deliberately artificial and enjoyable country house mystery.
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