Dead Water

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312969905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
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.

Hand In Glove

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312969080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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?

Women of Mystery

Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312209428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
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.

Night at the Vulcan

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
A London actor was dying for a star billing... From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard's cast of suspects for the final curtain.

Tied Up In Tinsel

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312971953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
A Christmas pageant turns unholy. Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of the pageant's players mysteriously disappears into the snowy night. Did the hired help-- each a paroled murderer from the nearby prison-- have a deadly hand in this Christmas conundrum? Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to join his wife in finding the lost man-- and unraveling the glaring truth from the glittering tinsel.

A Wreath for Rivera

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter Felicite. So when a bit of strange business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murderer in their midst.

Final Curtain

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
A Shakespearean actor takes his final bow. Troy Alleyn, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's beautiful young wife, is engaged to paint a portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, famed Shakespearean actor and family patriarch, but she senses all is not well in the dreary castle of Ancreton. When old Henry is found dead after a suspicious dinner and an unfortunate family fracas, Troy enlists the impeccable aid of her husband to determine who among a cast of players would have a motive for murder-and the theatrical gift to carry it out.

Clutch of Constables

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312970840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Troubled waters... Celebrated painter Troy Alleyn, aboard the Zodiac on a cruise of the English waterways, finds a colorful constellation of personalities on its passengers list. Plus one who missed the boat-found murdered in London. Her letters to her husband, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, relate a string of incidents-capped by a grisly drowning-that convince him that one of the ship's company is a world-class art forger on the run. But can he unmask this master of disguise in time to save another life-possibly Troy's?

When In Rome

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312970970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Vacationing in Rome, Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates when a member of his tour group is mysteriously murdered.

Light Thickens

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312973148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder Macbeth is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a smash until gruesome pranks begin plaguing rehearsals. And when the last act ends in real-life tragedy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn takes center stage-uncovering a heartbreaking secret, murderous jealousy, and a dark, desperate reason for "murder for foul"...