A Man Lay Dead

Author: Ngaio 1895-1982 Marsh
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014219480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
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A Man Lay Dead

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1934609951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Crime comes to a country house: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A, and this one is no exception.” —The New York Times This classic from the Golden Age of British mystery opens during a country-house party between the two world wars—servants bustling, gin flowing, the gentlemen in dinner jackets, the ladies all slink and smolder. Even more delicious: The host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews

Death in a White Tie

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . .“Marsh’s writing is a pleasure.” —The Seattle Times It’s debutante season in London, and that means giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances . . ..and much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn’s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord “Bunchy” Gospell, everybody’s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than lovable; he’s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can unmask the blackmailer, a murder is announced. And everyone suddenly stops giggling . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “[Her] writing style and vivid characters and settings made her a mystery novelist of world renown.” —The New York Times

The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
ISBN: 1631942719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
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 the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . . Enter a Murderer: A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage in a mystery “good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories” (The New York Times). The Nursing Home Murder: A Member of Parliament has unexpectedly died on a visit the hospital, and any number of people could be suspects, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine

Vintage Murder

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312971793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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.

A Man Lay Dead

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002316828
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Kriminalroman om et overklasseselskab, der under et weekend-ophold på en herregård morer sig med en "morderleg". Legen udvikler sig pludselig til alvor, og det bliver nødvendigt at tilkalde kriminalkommisær Alleyn.

Died in the Wool

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
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 packed in a bale of her own wool. What happened on the night of her long-ago disappearance? In the country on counterespionage duty, Inspector Roderick Alleyn is happy to lend a hand. “The doyenne of traditional mystery writers.” —The New York Times

Where the Dead Lay

Author: David Levien
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385530277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
When Frank Behr’s friend and mentor is murdered without any apparent motive, he thirsts for answers and retaliation. But before he can make headway in the dead-end investigation, a private firm approaches him with a delicate proposition: two of its detectives have gone missing, and the firm wants Behr to find out what happened to them. The search for the missing detectives takes Behr into the recesses of Indianapolis’s underworld, a place rife with brutality and vice where Behr uncovers a shocking thread connecting the missing detectives to his friend’s brutal murder, and, in the process, an ominous, deadly new breed of crime family.

Surfeit of Lampreys

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Inspector Roderick Alleyn
ISBN: 9781937384531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar, the charades with which they entertained their guests became quite complicated. And when Uncle Gabriel Lamprey dies, Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in.

Money in the Morgue: The New Inspector Alleyn Mystery

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008207127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.