Description

A vintage Ngaio Marsh book where a sport of darts within an English bar has ugly effects. In the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer night, eight individuals are collected together in the tap-room. They're in the practice of playing darts, but an experiment takes the area of the game -- a deadly experiment which requires analysis at this juncture. A painter, a famous actor, a female scholar, a fat girl from County Clare, and a farmer all play their parts in the unravelling of the issue,