The plot's two drivers are a (mysteriously owned and edited) vogueish magazine Harmony with an agony column signed by the anonymous GPF ('Guide, Philosopher, Friend') and the almost certifiable Lord Pastern's latest enthusiasm to play percussion in Breezy Bellairs' swing band, resident at the fashionable Metronome nightclub run by Caesar Bonn. Edward Manx and Lord Pastern's niece Carlisle Wayne, returning from war work overseas to be reunited with a family she now observes with affectionate irritation and cool detachment. Apart from the extensive domestic staff and Lady Pastern's companion-secretary Miss Henderson, we meet a family cousin Hon. Its opening chapter a series of sharply contrasting letters, telegrams and gossip column press items, the novel soon brings together its cast of characters at the Belgravia home (Duke's Gate, London SW1) of the eccentric, outrageous Lord Pastern & Bagott, his long-suffering, coiffed and corseted French wife Lady Cécile and her daughter by a previous marriage Félicité (Fée) de Suze. The plot concerns the murder of a big band accordionist in London the novel was published as A Wreath for Rivera in the United States. Swing, Brother, Swing is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh it is the fifteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1949.
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