Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312969080
Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent? All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
Author : Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2000-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312209428
And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312969905
Faith healing can be fatal When intrepid octogenarian Emily Pride inherits an island, and the miraculous properties of its "Pixie Falls" healing spring, she is shocked by all the vulgarity. The admission fee, the Gifte Shoppe, the folksy Festival, the neon sign on the pub, all must go! But local opposition runs high, death threats pile up, and Miss Emily's old friend Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives just in time to discover a drowned body and a set of murder motives that seem to spring eternal.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312966041
A murdered body is discovered on a farm, packed in a bale of wool--and Roderick Alleyn must find a wild, woolly killer.
Author : Moira Davison Reynolds
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 078645069X
While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312972868
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard visits the Channel Islands after a riding accident leads to charges of premeditated murder.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312969998
For an unlucky member of parliament, a hospital stay is the unkindest cut of all... When Britain's Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and a cabinet full of political foes.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312971793
Part of a publishing program that creates a brand new look for Marsh's 32 mystery novels, this book finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn going backstage at a theater company to find out why a bottle of champagne crashed down on the head of the famous producer and killed him.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312970109
At the newly restored Dolphin Theatre, murder takes center stage The once-dilapidated Dolphin Theater, now restored to its former glory, is open again-and all of London is buzzing about its new play, The Glove, inspired by the discovery of a genuine Shakespearean glove. But on one unfortunate evening, the Dolphin opens its doors to the harshest critic of all: death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must find out who stole the scene with a most murderous act.
Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1998-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312966690
For Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the trip was to be official; for his family, a Mediterranean romp. But a plot torn from the pages of a gothic novel soon engulfed them all. Alleyn's son was kidnapped. A very wealthy spinster was murdered. And in an eerie chateau, carved out of the Riviera mountainside, Alleyn faced the ultimate jet-set cult.
