Fatal Curtain — John Buxton Hilton

The play was a local production--the town's hundred-year celebration--and the stage was set for murder. Lead actress Davina Stott took her final bows at rehearsal and was found dead the next day. The villagers suspected an outsider--Inspector Kenworthy himself. And unless the culprit can be found quickly, it's curtains for Kenworthy!

AN INSPECTOR KENWORTHY MYSTERY
With a pipe in his hand and a trick or two up his sleeve, Inspector Kenworthy is Scotland Yard's consummate master of investigation. Big, bearish, and sometimes bullying, he makes his sergeants quake and culprits tremble--for Kenworthy's keen eye for spotting "whodunnit" lets no one get away with murder.