Edith Ngaio Marsh, DBE (* 23. 4. 1895 in Merivale; † 18. 2. 1982 in Neuseeland) war eine neuseeländische Schriftstellerin, Schauspielerin und Theaterregisseurin. Marsh gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Verfasserinnen der klassischen Detektivgeschichten, ihr Serienheld Roderick Alleyn – von adeliger Abstammung, zugleich aber Inspektor bei Scotland Yard – als Prototyp vieler Detektivfiguren.
90 电子书 Ngaio Marsh
Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool
Folkways turn fatal in a very old-fashioned English village, in this witty mystery filled with "ingenious" detective work (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The village of South Mardian likes …
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Ngaio Marsh: Singing in the Shrouds
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: False Scent
This tale of an actress’s dramatic demise, and a police detective trying to sniff out a killer, is “one of Ngaio Marsh's best yarns” (Kirkus Reviews). Mary Bellamy is the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Hand in Glove
A deadly dull man is now just plain dead in this novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews One has to admit that …
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Ngaio Marsh: Dead Water
A spring may have healing properties—but the controversy over it may have harmful results—in a witty mystery by a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. The elderly Emily Pride is …
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Ngaio Marsh: Killer Dolphin
“Miss Marsh works her characteristic storyteller's magic with the elements of theater and suspense.” —Kirkus Reviews The impresario Peregrine Jay has fulfilled a long-cherished …
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Ngaio Marsh: Clutch of Constables
A river cruise may be sunk by a ruthless criminal in this novel by “the doyenne of traditional mystery writers” (The New York Times). Inspector Alleyn’s wife, the artist Agatha …
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Ngaio Marsh: When in Rome
A British tour group in Italy finds murder is an obstacle to their sightseeing: “Fastidious writing [and] a fine appreciation of place.” —Sunday Times A group of well-to-do tourists …
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Ngaio Marsh: Tied Up in Tinsel
The acclaimed author brings us crime at a country-house Christmas party in “one of her best and most baffling mysteries” (Daily Express). It’s the Christmas season in 1972, and …
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Ngaio Marsh: Black As He’s Painted
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Last Ditch
Detection becomes a father-and-son activity in the Channel Islands: “A mystery novelist of world renown.” —The New York Times Ricky Alleyn, son of the renowned police detective …
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Ngaio Marsh: Grave Mistake
A fancy hotel plays host to homicide in a “jubilant” novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred …
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Ngaio Marsh: Light Thickens
From the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, this tale of death at the Dolphin Theatre has “wit, charm, and oodles of atmosphere” (Kirkus Reviews). Among theater folk, “the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Photo Finish
A diva is dead in New Zealand . . . “A neat little puzzle, sparkling writing . . .a book that should make all readers happy.” —The New York Times The …
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Ngaio Marsh: Collected Short Mysteries
A delightfully eclectic assortment of short works by the renowned author, including stories featuring her famous detective Inspector Alleyn. Fans of Ngaio Marsh, the New Zealand-born author and …
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Stella Duffy & Ngaio Marsh: Money in the Morgue
This novel of murder and espionage in World War II New Zealand is "an exquisite reminder of the brilliance of Marsh’s London detective" (The Guardian).Inspector Roderick Alleyn just wants …
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Ngaio Marsh: Man Lay Dead
Crime comes to a country house: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A, and this one is no exception.” —The New York Times This classic from the Golden Age of British …
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Ngaio Marsh: Nursing Home Murder
For one unfortunate British politician, murder is the worst medicine: "An ingenious, logical, and sparkling tale." -The New York Times For Member of Parliament Sir Derek O’Callaghan, a …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death in Ecstasy
Tainted wine sends a member of a religious sect to meet her maker in a witty mystery marked by "quiet, intelligent deduction" (Kirkus Reviews).Did lovely Cara Quoyne get a whiff of the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Vintage Murder
A police inspector finds trouble during a trip to New Zealand: "It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." -New York Magazine Inspector Roderick Alleyn …
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Ngaio Marsh: Colour Scheme
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, …
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Ngaio Marsh: Overture to Death
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death and the Dancing Footman
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Artists in Crime
A model is murdered in this “first-rate” detective story by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews). On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds …
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Ngaio Marsh: Enter a Murderer
A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage: "Good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories." -The New York Times Inspector …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death in a White Tie
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, …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death at the Bar
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Surfeit of Lampreys
A suspicious inheritance comes to the rescue of a cash-strapped aristocratic family: “Entertaining and devious . . . Plenty of red herrings.” —Kirkus Reviews The …
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Ngaio Marsh: Died in the Wool
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Final Curtain
A Shakespearean actor shuffles off his mortal coil in this "skillfully wrought" country-house mystery (The New York Times).Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged …
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Ngaio Marsh: Swing, Brother, Swing
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Night at the Vulcan
"The theatre plays backdrop to romance and murder . . . Good reading." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Newly arrived from New Zealand and in need of funds, Martyn Tarne takes a job as a …
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Ngaio Marsh: Scales of Justice
An aristocrat dies under fishy circumstances in this tale by “the finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit” (The Sun). In an almost unspeakably …
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Ngaio Marsh: Spinsters in Jeopardy
A British police detective looks into sinister doings in the South of France in a crime thriller with “more than a little excitement” (Kirkus Reviews). Inspector Roderick Alleyn has …
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Ngaio Marsh: Das Todesspiel
Eine seltsam gemischte Gesellschaft trifft sich zu einem Wochenende auf einem Landsitz in England. Sir Hubert Handesley, der Gastgeber, ist bekannt für seine geistreichen Gesellschaftsspiele. Diesmal …
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Ngaio Marsh: Man Lay Dead
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume of the 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.Sir Hubert Handesley’s extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous …
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Ngaio Marsh: Enter a Murderer
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.ENTER A MURDERERThe crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom …
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Ngaio Marsh: Nursing Home Murder
Ngaio Marsh’s bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time.Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane …
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Ngaio Marsh: Vintage Murder
A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife’s …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death in Ecstasy
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.Who slipped cyanide into the ceremonial wine of ecstasy at the House of the Sacred Flame? The other initiates and the High Priest claim to be above earthly passions. …
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Ngaio Marsh: Artists in Crime
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy.It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death in a White Tie
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh’s 1930s novels.The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, …
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Ngaio Marsh: Overture to Death
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which she more than lives up to her reputation as a crime writer of intelligence and style.It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death at the Bar
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences.At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in …
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Ngaio Marsh: Surfeit of Lampreys
Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander’s first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford – with a meat skewer through the eye…The Lampreys had …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death and the Dancing Footman
A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers.It begins as an entertainment: eight people, many of them adversaries, gathered for a winter …
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Ngaio Marsh: Colour Scheme
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.It was a horrible death – Maurice Questing was …
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Ngaio Marsh: Died in the Wool
Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island – and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing …
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Ngaio Marsh: Final Curtain
A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel.Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled …
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Ngaio Marsh: Swing, Brother, Swing
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.The music rises to a climax: Lord Pastern aims his revolver and fires. The figure in the spotlight falls – and the coup-de-theatre has become murder… Has …
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Ngaio Marsh: Opening Night
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The …
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Ngaio Marsh: Spinsters in Jeopardy
A classic Ngaio Marsh mystery thriller combining drugs and sacrifice.High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is …
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Ngaio Marsh: Scales of Justice
A brutal murder with a golf club and an ingenious plot bursting with snobbery, suspicion , adultery and secrets – to say nothing of the dreadful crime of catricide…The lives of the inhabitants of …
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Ngaio Marsh: Off With His Head
Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh’s most fascinating murder mysteries.When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to …
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Ngaio Marsh: Singing in the Shrouds
With this novel of mounting tension among apparently normal people, Ngaio Marsh achieved a triumph on a level with her most famous detective novels Surfeit of Lampreys, Scales of Justice and Off With …
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Ngaio Marsh: False Scent
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.Mary Bellamy, darling of the London stage, holds a 50th birthday party, a gala for everyone who loves her and fears her power. Then someone uses a deadly …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death at the Dolphin
The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death – and one of Marsh’s most vivid and dramatic novels.When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious …
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Ngaio Marsh: Hand in Glove
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most ingenious novels.The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever.Then there was the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Dead Water
A quirky Roderick Alleyn mystery about faith, greed – and murder.Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie …
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Ngaio Marsh: When in Rome
Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels.When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Clutch of Constables
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country.’He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform …
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Ngaio Marsh: Tied Up In Tinsel
Christmas time in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there’s murder inside.Christmas time in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, …
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Ngaio Marsh: Last Ditch
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel Young Rickie Alleyn had come to the Channel Islands to try to write, but village life was tedious – until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an …
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Ngaio Marsh: Black As He’s Painted
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novels, this time featuring one of her best creations – Lucy Lockett, the crime-solving cat.When the exuberant president of Ng’ombwana proposes to dispense with the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Grave Mistake
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and – it later appeared – a …
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Ngaio Marsh: Photo-Finish
Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last – and best – novels.The luxury mansion on New …
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Ngaio Marsh: Light Thickens
The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a …
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Ngaio Marsh: Black Beech and Honeydew
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.With all the insight and style her readers came to expect of her, Ngaio Marsh’s autobiography captures all the joys, …
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Ngaio Marsh: Death on the Air
The only collection of Ngaio Marsh short stories, first published in 1995 to celebrate her centenary, now with two additional stories.A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A disguised aristocrat …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 2
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DEATH IN ECSTASYWho slipped …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3
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 TIEThe …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries SURFEIT OF LAMPREYSThe …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 5
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DIED IN THE WOOLOne summer …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 6
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the sixth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.OPENING NIGHTDreams of …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 7
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 OFF WITH HIS HEADWhen the …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 8
The eighth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.HAND IN GLOVEThe April Fool’s Day was a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 9
The ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.CLUTCH OF CONSTABLESAccording to Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, ‘the Jampot’ is an …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 10
The tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.BLACK AS HE’S PAINTEDCalled in to help with security arrangements for a presidential …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 11
The final volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.PHOTO-FINISHThe luxury mansion on New Zealand’s Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a …
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Ngaio Marsh: Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 1
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.A MAN LAY DEADSir Hubert …
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Stella Duffy & Ngaio Marsh: Money in the Morgue
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 …
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Ngaio Marsh: Ein Schuss im Theater
Auf der Bühne des Londoner ‘Unicorn’-Theaters spielt man die letzte Szene eines Kriminalstücks. Ein Pistolenlauf richtet sich auf den Mörder – und dann der Schuss! Meisterhaft, wie der Schauspieler A …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder under the Christmas Tree
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men … or is it? As the nights draw in, throw another log on the fire and settle back into your armchair to enjoy this collection of ten classic Christmas myst …
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Christianna Brand & Edmund Crispin: Bodies from the Library 4
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna …
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Anthony Berkeley & Nicholas Blake: Bodies from the Library 3
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh …
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Ngaio Marsh: Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1
The first three Inspector Roderick Alleyn novels from “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews). This volume includes …
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Ngaio Marsh: Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 2
Three compelling tales of crime featuring the sharp-witted British police detective: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A.” —The New York Times This volume …
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Ngaio Marsh: Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 3
Three witty novels by “the finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit” (The Sun). This volume includes three books in the Golden Age …
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Ngaio Marsh: O Jogo do Assassino (Clube do crime)
ROMANCE PIONEIRO NO ESTILO ‘COZY CRIME’, DE UMA DAS RAINHAS DA LITERATURA DE MISTÉRIO
As festas de sir Hubert Handerslay em sua casa de campo em Framptom já se tornaram famosas entre a alta …
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Ngaio Marsh: Roderick Alleyn Mysteries
Three witty murder mysteries featuring British Inspector Roderick Alleyn, from a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.Surfeit of Lampreys: The upper-crust Lamprey family exemplifies charm, …
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