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Black Beech and Honeydew - POD by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the in ...Show more
Bodies from the Library 3 by Tony Medawar (Editor); Agatha Christie; Ngaio Marsh; Dorothy L. Sayers; Anthony Berkeley; Nicholas Blake
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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 and John Dickson Carr. The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication o ...Show more
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Reading Level: very good
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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
Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, so the old superstition of the acting fraternity says, always brings bad luck. One night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real, and murder takes centre stage. Luckily, Chie ...Show more
Photo-Finish by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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
Surfeit of Lamfreys Fs by Marsh Ngaio
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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