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  • THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 1
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    THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 1
    NGAIO MARSH
    The first three Inspector Roderick Alleyn novels from  "a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews).   This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:   A Man Lay Dead : During a country-house party between the two world wars, servants bustle, gin flows, and...

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  • THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 2
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    THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 2
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:   Death in Ecstasy : Tainted wine sends a member of a religious sect to meet her maker in a witty mystery ...

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  • THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 3
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    THE RODERICK ALLEYN MYSTERIES VOLUME 3
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:   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   Ove...

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  • MONEY IN THE MORGUE
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    MONEY IN THE MORGUE
    NGAIO MARSH / STELLA DUFFY
    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 to write a letter to his wife, but World War II, for one, keeps intruding. It's war-work, after all, that has brought Alleyn to this seedy hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the...

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  • LAST DITCH
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    LAST DITCH
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Roderick Alleyn, has taken himself to a secluded island to write a novel. Or think about writing a novel. Or look for distractions so he can avoid writing a novel. The distractions abound, mostly in the...

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  • LIGHT THICKENS
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    LIGHT THICKENS
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Scottish play" is considered unlucky, so much so that tradition requires anyone who utters its proper name backstage to leave the building, spin around, spit, curse, and then request permission to re-e...

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  • PHOTO FINISH
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    PHOTO FINISH
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 soprano Isabella Sommita was widely loathed, so much so that the problem with solving her murder is less a lack of plausible suspects than an embarrassment of options. On a lavish island estate, cut off from the mainland by a sud...

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  • A GRAVE MISTAKE
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    A GRAVE MISTAKE
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 review). Sybil Foster lives the sort of little English village that is home mostly to the very rich and the servants who make their lives delightful. But Sybil Foster's life is not delightful, even if she does ...

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  • COLLECTED SHORT MYSTERIES
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    COLLECTED SHORT MYSTERIES
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, will find much of interest in this unique collection. Included are short stories—some featuring Roderick Alleyn, "the nonpareil among criminal in...

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  • WHEN IN ROME
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    WHEN IN ROME
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 is visiting Italy's magnificent churches, but they've found themselves stumbling into an unholy web of blackmail and drug-smuggling—and, in the depths of a Roman basilica, murder. Fortunately Inspe...

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  • CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES
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    CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Troy, has a special fondness for Constables—the paintings, that is, not the policemen. So she jumps at the chance to take a river cruise through "Constable Country" in the east of England, in honor of t...

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  • TIED UP IN TINSEL
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    TIED UP IN TINSEL
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Agatha Troy is at a house party, enjoying the local holiday pageant and also painting the host's portrait. The painting's coming along fine, but the pageant goes a little pear-shaped when one of the pla...

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  • BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED
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    BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Times). Superintendent Alleyn's old school chum, nicknamed the "Boomer," has become the president of the newly emerged African nation of Ng'ombwana, newly emerged in the wake of colonialism. Old school ties bei...

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  • FALSE SCENT
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    FALSE SCENT
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 sweetheart of the London stage—everyone simply adores darling Mary. So her fans and friends are heartbroken when somehow Mary manages to spritz herself not with her favorite perfume but with a deadly insectic...

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  • HAND IN GLOVE
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    HAND IN GLOVE
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 the timing was peculiar. No one could doubt that Mr. Percival Pyke Period was genuinely distraught to hear that his neighbor, Harry Cartell, had turned up dead in a ditch. But how is it that Mr. Perci...

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  • DEAD WATER
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    DEAD WATER
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 perfectly pleased to have inherited an island, even if her starchy pragmatism is ever-so-faintly appalled by the island's "Pixie Falls" spring and its reported miraculous healing properties. Really,...

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  • KILLER DOLPHIN
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    KILLER DOLPHIN
    NGAIO MARSH
    "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 dream: Thanks to a very generous gift, he now owns the Dolphin Theatre, and has restored it to its former glory. To celebrate the reopening, a no-expenses-spared production of The Glove, a new play abou...

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  • SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDY
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    SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDY
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 decamped for the South of France on a family vacation—though for him, the vacation will involve some official poking around. Unfortunately, the object of his poking—the cultish denizens of a sinist...

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  • SCALES OF JUSTICE
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    SCALES OF JUSTICE
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 charming little English village, one of the local aristocrats turns up dead next to the local trout-stream with, in fact, a trout at his side. Everyone is dreadfully upset, of course, but really, ju...

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  • DEATH OF A FOOL
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    DEATH OF A FOOL
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There...

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  • SINGING IN THE SHROUDS
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    SINGING IN THE SHROUDS
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He...

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  • DEATH AT THE BAR
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    DEATH AT THE BAR
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 rarely lethal. There are exceptions, however, like the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the Plume of Feathers pub, and is now residing at the morgue. But Inspector Roderick Alleyn has a growing hu...

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  • SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS
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    SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS
    NGAIO MARSH
    A suspicious inheritance comes to the rescue of a cash-strapped aristocratic family: "Entertaining and devious . . . Plenty of red herrings." — Kirkus Reviews The upper-crust Lamprey family exemplifies charm, wit, and a chronic lack of funds. Their only source of hope is the wealthy but unpleasant Lord Wutherwood, and the Lampreys may perhaps be forgiven for doing a little jig ...

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  • DIED IN THE WOOL
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    DIED IN THE WOOL
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 pack...

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  • DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN
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    DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal's country house, murder ensues,...

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  • COLOUR SCHEME
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    COLOUR SCHEME
    NGAIO MARSH
    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, Colonel Claire—a tremendously nice fellow and a disastrously bad businessman—runs a mud-baths resort in rural New Zealand. But the place is on the brink of being taken over by a local blowhar...

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  • SWING, BROTHER, SWING
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    SWING, BROTHER, SWING
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 latest of which is drumming in a jazz band. His wife is not amused, and she is even less so when her daughter falls for Carlos Rivera, the band's sleazy accordion player. Nobody l...

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  • FINAL CURTAIN
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    FINAL CURTAIN
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work end...

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  • NIGHT AT THE VULCAN
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    NIGHT AT THE VULCAN
    NGAIO MARSH
    "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 dresser to the Vulcan Theater's leading lady. Along with a paycheck, this also provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus—and the eventual murder that occurs on opening night. I...

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  • DEATH IN ECSTASY
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    DEATH IN ECSTASY
    NGAIO MARSH
    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 bitter almonds as she raised the goblet to her lips? We'll never know: With a single sip of prussic acid she transported herself to the Hereafter. Now Inspector Alleyn must investigate a murder...

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