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Books by Ngaio Marsh:

Artists in Crime

(1938)

When murder upsets the creative tranquility of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. And what begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn's career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects - the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection.

 

Black as He's Painted (1974)

Clutch of Constables (1968)

Colour Scheme

(1943)

The bizarre assortment of people living at a health spa in New Zealand during World war II could set off almost anything - and they do.

Colonel Claire and his wife live with their two children - an awkward daughter and a son studying Morse Code - and Mrs. Clair's brother, a hot-tempered physician.

 

Into their midst come a seedy inebriate named Smith and unscrupulous businessman named Questing, who all suspect to be an enemy agent.

Questing suddenly dies under violent and macabre circumstances, and takes to his death a secret that promises far-reaching effects on each of his accusers ...

 

Dead Water

(1963)

When a week of death threats at a faith-healing resort ends in a ghastly murder, Inspector Roderick Alleyn is faced with the most puzzling, and painful, case of his career. For of the two main suspects, one is his oldest and dearest friend - and the other is the victim herself!

 

Death and the Dancing Footman (1941)

Death at the Bar

(1940)

Death at the Dolphin {Killer Dolphin in U.S. version} (1966)

Death in a White Tie

(1938)

Lady Carrado's glittering gala was the pinnacle of the Season. But then death crashed the party and spoiled the fun - particularly when Lord Gospell was found shockingly strangled.

Chief Inspector Alleyn steps out in High Society - to solve a blue-blooded murder ...

Death in Ecstasy (1936)

Died in the Wool (1945)

Death on the Air {A collection of short stories} (1995)

Died in the Wool

Enter a Murderer

(1935)

Exit an ambitious actor. The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, dead&emdash;with a gun Arthur himself loaded with blanks.

 

Or did he? How the live bullets got there, and why, make for a convoluted case that pits Inspector Roderick Alleyn against someone who rates an Oscar for a murderously clever performance

False Scent (1959)

False Scent

(1959)

Final Curtain (1947)

Grave Mistake (1978)

 

Hand in Glove

(1962)

Lady Bantling had a talent for outrageous parties, but she never dreamed her mad treasure hunt would end in murder - with a famous lawyer dead in a drain excavation, his skull bashed in by a pipe. Who had planned this horrendous happening? Inspector Alleyn probes the alibis of some elegant aristocrats for the hidden clue to a particular deadly guest.

 

Last Ditch (1977)

Light Thickens

(1982)

The fight. Leap, clash, sweep; hoarse, snarling voices. Macbeth is beaten backward, Macduff raises his claymore, and they plunge out of sight. A scream. A thud. Silence.

Seyton carries his claidheamh-mor and on it, streamong blood, the head of Macbeth. Real blood drips onto his upturned face.

And being well-trained professional actors, they respond, with stricken faces and shaking lips, "Hail, King of Scotland!"

The curtain falls ...

A Man Lay Dead (1934)

The Nursing Home Murder

(1935)

The Home Secretery lay dead on the operating table. He'd had his enemies, of course, but none of them seems a likely candidate for the gallows - until Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn follows the convoluted path from 10 Downing Street to an illicit love nest and unmasks a horrifying killer!

Off With His Head {Death of a Fool in U.S. version} (1956)

Opening Night {Night at the Vulcan in U.S. version} (1951)

Overture to Death

(1939)

The squire's guests decided to put on a show for charity, but the stage is set for murder when a spurious spinster's musical debut is brought to an abrupt finale by a well-timed bullet.

Photo-Finish (1980)

Scales of Justice (1955)

Singing in the Shrouds (1958)

 

Spinsters in Jeopardy

(1953)

Arriving as an uninvited guest at the terrifying castle on the Riviera known as "The House of the Silver Goat," Inspector Roderick Alleyn is faced with three unpleasant and dangerous tasks: he must investigate a hideous murder, infiltrate a secret drug-terror cult; and rescue his own kidnapped son.

 

 

Surfeit of Lampreys

Published in the U.S. as:

Death of a Peer

(1940)

 

Swing, Brother, Swing

Published in the U.S. as:

A Wreath for Rivera

(1949)

The Metronome, a posh London night club, is the scene of a long-heralded gala event - a gathering of the family of George Settinger, Marquis of Pastern and Bagott. And his eccentric lordship, sitting in for the drummer, sets the beat for a murder, his own.

A trick revolver is fired, a carefully worked-out bit of stage business goes awry, and Rivera, a sleek fortune hunter, falls dead.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn, in for an evening's relaxation, follows the events and comes up against a baffling and blood web of intrigue.

Tied up in Tinsel (1972)

Vintage Murder

(1937)

A theatrical killing ...

Suddenly, a jeroboam of champagne crashed down at the cast party, bashing in the famous producer's head ...

Who planned this horrible spectacular? His wife; her lover, the leading man; the not-so-innocent ingenue?

 

Inspector Alleyn goes backstage to probe the alibis of some fascinating theater people and trains the spotlight on murder ...

When in Rome

(1971)

The man called Cicerone was the jet-set guide to Rome. His tour of the unconventional sights attracted the wealthy and the famous - as well as Inspector Roderick Alleyn, whose holiday ended abruptly when he found that one of the "sights" was an ancient sarcophagus containing a very modern corpse!

 

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