Ngaio Marsh

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Died In The Wool (A Roderick Alleyn M...

Ngaio Marsh

divAn M.P. meets a woolly demise.Member of Parliament Florence Rubrick has the wool pulled over her eyes-quite literally. She's been found dead, her body pressed into a bale of wool. When Inspector Alleyn pays a visit to her New Zeala...

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Published: Jun 1998

A Man Lay Dead (A Roderick Alleyn Mys...

Ngaio Marsh

divIIt's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Murdered./At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of "Murder." Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on a...

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Published: Oct 1997

A Man Lay Dead

Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens (she has been called the empress) of England's Golden Age of mystery fiction. And in true Golden Age fashion, her oeuvre opens with, yes, a country-house party between the two world wars – servants ...

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Published: Sep 2011

Overture To Death (A Roderick Alleyn ...

Ngaio Marsh

divAmateur actors set the stage for murder...Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was...

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Published: Mar 1998

Singing in the Shrouds: Inspector Rod...

Ngaio Marsh

The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak:...

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Published: Dec 2014

Collected Short Mysteries

Ngaio Marsh

A collection of short stories written by Ngaio Marsh; a number of them feature Inspector Alleyn, the protagonist of Marsh's famous mystery series. Included as well is a television script written by Marsh and the very first short story...

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Published: Jun 2015

Colour Scheme: Roderick Alleyn #12

Ngaio Marsh

Colour Scheme is set during World War II at a mud-baths resort in New Zealand run by Colonel Claire. His business is on the brink of being taken over by a local blowhard who may be a Nazi spy. Inspector Alleyn has been sent to the res...

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Published: Mar 2013

Death and the Dancing Footman

Ngaio Marsh

The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest-list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal's country ho...

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Published: Mar 2013

Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roder...

Ngaio Marsh

Ah, the London Debutante Season: Giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances. And much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is dec...

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Published: Sep 2012

Overture to Death: Inspector Roderick...

Ngaio Marsh

It's murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. ...

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Published: Oct 2012
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