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Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: good
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and 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
Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief De ...Show more
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and 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
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
$22.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
On stage at the Unicorn Theatre, an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet, killing Arthur Surbonadier, an actor using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included girlfriends and blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.
Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Murder gets into the act in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel-and a Shakespearean actor takes his final bow. Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not prepared for th ...Show more
Money in the Morgue: An Inspector Alleyn Mystery by Ngaio Marsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and 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
Surfeit of Lamfreys Fs by Marsh Ngaio
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar - and rather gloried in it. The double and tr ...Show more
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary ...Show more
The Nursing Home Murder: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel by Ngaio Marsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and 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
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