Black As He's Painted

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312972790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
The charismatic president of Ng'ombwana in Africa has enemies of every stripe--from ex-colonists to new rivals, from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at the president's lavish embassy party in London, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose the assassin.

Last Ditch

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Inspector Roderick Alleyn
ISBN: 9781631940521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Roderick Alleyn's son Ricky Alleyn is now 21, and has taken himself off 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 form of colorful local characters, until Ricky stumbles across a murder and then gets himself kidnapped. Which is too bad for Ricky (and the murder-victim), but it brings Inspector Alleyn to the island. A subtheme involving drug-running may strike a jarring note, but Last Ditch was first published in 1977, and as such, it offers a remarkable look at what happens when the characters and conventions of the Golden Age fetch up in the distinctly tarnished present.

Grave Mistake

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312972974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Sybil Foster of Upper Quintern is terribly proud of her gardener and of her new asparagus beds, but when her unwelcome stepson arrives, she heads for "a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director ... and an apparent suicide."--Cover.

A Grave Mistake

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1631940554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
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 have an extremely talented gardener. Exhausted from her various family stresses—a daughter, for instance, who wants to marry a man without a title!—Sybil takes herself off to a local hotel that specializes in soothing shattered nerves. When she’s killed, Inspector Alleyn has a real puzzler on his hands: Yes, she was silly, snobbish, and irritating. But if that were enough motive for murder, half of England would be six feet under . . . “In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.” —The New York Times “The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.” —Times Literary Supplement

Last Ditch

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312972868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard visits the Channel Islands after a riding accident leads to charges of premeditated murder.

Grave Mistake and Two Other Great Mysteries

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 712

Book Description
Grave mistake: Superintendent Alleyn investigates the supposed suicide of a wealthy widow in a chic rest spa.

Black As He’s Painted (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007344848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
One of Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novels, this time featuring one of her best creations – Lucy Lockett, the crime-solving cat.

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.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
ISBN: 163194214X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
The beloved 1930s comedienne becomes the famed detective’s sidekick in the series that “transport[s] the reader back to a long-gone era of society” (Mystery Scene). During a glamorous night on the town, Gracie Allen finds a dead body—and a cigarette case nearby that belongs to her date for the evening. Detective Philo Vance is on the scene, but questioning Gracie is causing more confusion than enlightenment. To prevent her from creating more chaos, Vance decides to keep her close by as his unofficial sleuthing partner. Now, with the help of the zany star—or in spite of it—he intends to find the real killer . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune “The best of the American mystery men.” —The Globe

The Garden Murder Case

Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
ISBN: 1631942131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
A horse race turns into a murder case . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune Aristocratic detective Philo Vance has gotten an anonymous invitation to a New York rooftop garden, where a group of wealthy friends gather to listen to the horse races. But on the night Vance attends, a guest dies of a gunshot wound after losing a load of money on a bet. Vance doesn’t think it was suicide, though—and when two other people in the household are targeted, he has to take the lead in this Golden Age mystery featuring the classic character with a “highbrow manner and [a] parade of encyclopedic learning” (The New York Times). “One of the high water mark Van Dine yarns.” —Kirkus Reviews “The perfect sleuth for the Jazz Age.” —CrimeReads “The Philo Vance novels were well-crafted puzzlers that captivated readers . . . the works of S.S. Van Dine serve to transport the reader back to a long-gone era of society.” —Mystery Scene “Outrageous cleverness.” —Bloody Murder