Singing In The Shrouds Ngaio Marsh

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631940187

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Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

It’s foul play on a freighter: “Enthralling . . .keeps the reader on tenterhooks until the dramatic finale.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. The latest of the ladies is currently lying on a fogbound London dock, mute witness to the fact that Inspector Alleyn—long on the strangler’s trail—has so far failed to catch his man. A wintertime sailing on a low-rent cargo ship is not Alleyn’s idea of a terrific time, but he nevertheless boards the Cape at Portsmouth, determined that no one else is going to get strangled on his watch . . .. “This is the Classic Puzzle at its purest . . .embellished by literate dialogue and attractive characterization.” —The New York Times

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488662832

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Singing in the Shrouds ;Ngaio Marsh by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007531417

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Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 7: Off With His Head, Singing in the Shrouds, False Scent by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:220711681

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Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384470

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Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

The inspector digs into a cold case on a New Zealand sheep farm in this “well-sustained crime story” from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews). Flossie Rubrick, a highly opinionated and influential member of the New Zealand Parliament, was last seen heading off to one of the storage sheds on her sheep farm. Three weeks later, she turned up dead and packed in a bale of her own wool. What happened on the night of her long-ago disappearance? In the country on counterespionage duty, Inspector Roderick Alleyn is happy to lend a hand. “The doyenne of traditional mystery writers.” —The New York Times

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384319

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Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

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 : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007328758

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Off with His Head by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "My poor boy."

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007344833

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Last Ditch (The Ngaio Marsh Collection) by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312963580

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A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

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 : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384494

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Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

Murder strikes a sour note at a jazz concert in this classic detective novel from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. Lord Pastern and Bagott is given to passionate, peculiar enthusiasms, the latest of which is drumming in a jazz band. His wife is not amused, and she is even less so when her daughter falls for Carlos Rivera, the band’s sleazy accordion player. Nobody likes Rivera very much, so there’s a wealth of suspects when he is shot in the middle of a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in the audience, ready to make a killer face the music. Also published under the title A Wreath for Rivera “A succulent novel.” —The New York Times

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384456

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Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

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 : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384265

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Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

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 Reference USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039001487

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Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

When a much disliked visiting servant disappears without trace after playing Santa Claus, foul play is at once suspected - and suspicion falls on the guests. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn returns unexpectedly from a trip, it is to find his beloved wife in the thick of an intriguing mystery.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631940491

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Black As He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

A visiting dignitary in London asks for security—and gets extra help from a clever feline—in a novel starring “the nonpareil among criminal investigators” (The New York Times). Superintendent Alleyn’s old school chum, nicknamed the “Boomer,” has become the president of the newly emerged African nation of Ng’ombwana, newly emerged in the wake of colonialism. Old school ties being what they are, his friend—making an official visit to London—insists that Alleyn handle his security, rather than Her Majesty’s Special Branch. The Special Branch is not best pleased about this, as the Boomer is known to have some very deadly enemies, and the threats only increase when the Ng’ombwanan ambassador is killed. Happily for the Boomer, not only is Alleyn up to the task, but he is assisted by a rescued cat who proves extremely adept at finding clues . . . “The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.” —Times Literary Supplement

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384210

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Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh Pdf

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