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Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007344468
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which she more than lives up to her reputation as a crime writer of intelligence and style.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0007328710
CRIME & MYSTERY. Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384227
A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews). In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old ladies. They’re waspish, gossiping snobby little old ladies, passionate only about their amateur theatrical productions, their narrowly defined opinions about how everyone else should behave . . ..and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could one of them have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer? For Miss Campanula has perished on her piano bench—and it’s unclear whether Miss Prentice may have been the actual intended victim . . . “A goodie.” —Kirkus Reviews “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.” —The New York Times
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384319
A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . .“Marsh’s writing is a pleasure.” —The Seattle Times It’s debutante season in London, and that means 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 decidedly not Alleyn’s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord “Bunchy” Gospell, everybody’s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than lovable; he’s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can unmask the blackmailer, a murder is announced. And everyone suddenly stops giggling . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “[Her] writing style and vivid characters and settings made her a mystery novelist of world renown.” —The New York Times
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1097839954
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384456
At an English pub, a dart becomes a deadly weapon: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A.” —The New York Times A game of darts does involve some danger, but it’s rarely lethal. There are exceptions, however, like the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the Plume of Feathers pub, and is now residing at the morgue. But Inspector Roderick Alleyn has a growing hunch that this peculiar “accident” can be traced to an old legal case . . . “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384265
This tale of murder at a snowed-in country house is a “constant puzzle to the end . . . alive with wit” (The New York Times). 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 house, murder ensues, and there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to put things right, in this classic whodunit by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. “A smooth yarn.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312963602
The Ritual Wine Taste of Evil When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384210
A mystery with “atmosphere, humor . . .and a group of characters, English, Maori, and New Zealander, who are fascinating and completely credible.” —The New York Times During World War II, Colonel Claire—a tremendously nice fellow and a disastrously bad businessman—runs a mud-baths resort in rural New Zealand. But the place is on the brink of being taken over by a local blowhard who may be a Nazi spy. Inspector Alleyn has been sent in to sort things out—and don a disguise in order to blend in the resort’s motley cast of characters—in this classic tale of detection from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312963580
It'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 an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0006512593
'He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities,' reflected Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn on the international crook known as 'the Jampot'. But it was Alleyn's wife Troy who knew 'the Jampot' best: she had shared close quarters with him on the tiny pleasure steamer Zodiac on a cruise along the peaceful rivers of 'Constable country'. And it was she who knew something was badly wrong even before Alleyn was called in to solve the two murders on board. 'The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Cruising through Constable country, in both senses, with a cargo of strongly varied, cunningly suspect characters... the classic detective story ' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'It's time to compare Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around' NEW YORK MAGAZINE 'The finest writer in the English language of pure classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands outs as an Empress. THE SUN
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007328727
Surfeit of Lampreys: The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar, the charades with which they entertained their guests became quite complicated. And when Uncle Gabriel Lamprey dies, Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:802496688
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007531370
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007344888
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.