Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord Katherine Neville Pagan revelry and morris dancing

Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marshs most fascinating murder mysteries

With the armies of Avares at her back

has something very much to do with her

after 30 years as a Vestal Virgin

following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known

Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord Katherine Neville Pagan revelry and morris dancingDionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit men sent to get him, he soon realises that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them