Ngaio Marsh

A Wreath for Rivera

also known as 'Swing, Brother, Swing'

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Lord Pastern and Bagott

Lady Pastern and Bagott

Félicité de Suze, her daughter

The Honourable Edward Manx, Lord Pastern’s second cousin

Carlisle Wayne, Lord Pastern’s niece

Miss Henderson, companion-secretary to Lady Pastern

domestic staff at Duke’s Gate

Spence

Miss Parker

William

Mary

Myrtle

Hortense

Breezy Bellairs’s Boys

Breezy Bellairs

Happy Hart, pianist

Sydney Skelton, tympanist

Carlos Rivera, piano-accordionist

Caesar Bonn, maître de café at the Metronome

David Hahn, his secretary

Nigel Bathgate, of the Evening Chronicle

Dr. Allington

Mrs. Roderick Alleyn

of the Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard

Roderick Alleyn, Chief Detective-Inspector

Detective-Inspector Fox

Dr. Curtis

Detective-Sergeant Bailey, finger-print expert

Detective-Sergeant Thompson, photographer

Detective-Sergeants Gibson, Marks, Scott and Sallis

Sundry policemen, waiters, bandsmen and so on

Who asked for it and

now gets it

with my love

CHAPTER I

LETTERS

From Lady Pastern and Bagott to her niece by marriage, Miss Carlisle Wayne: