Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007344880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.
Black Beech and Honeydew (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007344880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007344880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime
Author: Joanne Drayton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007342896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007342896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.
Light Thickens
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816135097
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816135097
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Photo Finish
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316546805
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316546805
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
Ngaio Marsh
Author: Bruce Harding
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966. Based on years of original research by the curator of the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand, this book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966. Based on years of original research by the curator of the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand, this book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.
Died in the Wool
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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
Death in Ecstasy
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312963606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312963606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
A Man Lay Dead
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312963583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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 : 222
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.
Colour Scheme
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
England is at war--this means "spy fever" for a quarrelsome collection of patriots at a shabby New Zealand resort, and a macabre murder that shocks even Scotland Yard!
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
England is at war--this means "spy fever" for a quarrelsome collection of patriots at a shabby New Zealand resort, and a macabre murder that shocks even Scotland Yard!
Money in the Morgue: The New Inspector Alleyn Mystery
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008207127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008207127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.