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Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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 lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on ...Show more
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: The\Ngaio Marsh Collection | Reading Level: good
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech â and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction â packed inside one of her very own bales of wool and very, very dead . ...Show more
Money in the Morgue: An Inspector Alleyn Mystery by Ngaio Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy.'Hugely enjoyable'KATE MOSSEIt's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lon ...Show more
Photo-Finish by Ngaio Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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 Zealand's Lake Waihoe was the ideal place for the world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour. Chie ...Show more
The Nursing Home Murder: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel by Ngaio Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: The Detective Club
Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time. I assure you that if the opportunity presented itself I should have no hesitation in putting you out of the way.' The next day the Home Secretary dies during an emergency operation pe ...Show more
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
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 wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday in style. The piece de resistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest ...Show more
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