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

she journeys from Battersea to the Orkney Islands via Buckingham Palace to tell a moving and humorous tale of loyalty and partnership

With the armies of Avares at her back

First staged at the Royal Court Theatre

But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores

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