Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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
A Wreath for Rivera
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter Felicite. So when a bit of strange business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murderer in their midst.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter Felicite. So when a bit of strange business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murderer in their midst.
Swing, Brother, Swing
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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
A Wreath for Rivera
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photo Finish
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312973018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent, accompanies his celebrated artist-wife, Troy, to an exotic New Zealand island where Troy begins an opera star's portrait, only to assist in solving her murder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312973018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent, accompanies his celebrated artist-wife, Troy, to an exotic New Zealand island where Troy begins an opera star's portrait, only to assist in solving her murder.
A Man Lay Dead
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312963583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312963583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
False Scent
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312968984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Beloved British actress Mary Bellamy is done in at her own birthday party--choked by toxic mist from the bottle of a deadly insecticide. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types--for the case has the unmistakable scent of murder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312968984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Beloved British actress Mary Bellamy is done in at her own birthday party--choked by toxic mist from the bottle of a deadly insecticide. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types--for the case has the unmistakable scent of murder.
Tied Up in Tinsel
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Death at the Bar
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
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
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
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
Last Ditch
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312972868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard visits the Channel Islands after a riding accident leads to charges of premeditated murder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312972868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard visits the Channel Islands after a riding accident leads to charges of premeditated murder.
Forget Me
Author: K. A. Harrington
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147509416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In a town suffering after the major employer closed under a cloud of scandal, Morgan and her friends uncover a mystery as they try to learn if her supposedly dead boyfriend is living nearby under a different name.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147509416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In a town suffering after the major employer closed under a cloud of scandal, Morgan and her friends uncover a mystery as they try to learn if her supposedly dead boyfriend is living nearby under a different name.