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When murder upsets the creative tranquillity 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... |
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| "The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress." —The Sun
When the President of Ng’ombwana... |
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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 a wartime quest for German agents, knows... |
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| After an evening of friendly darts and vintage brandy, a distinguished, although amorous, barrister is in no condition to drive-or walk. The poor fellow's expired-leaving one less lawyer in the world.... |
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At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave their blades in an ancient ritual dance. But for one of them, the excitement proves too heady, and his decapitation turns the fertility rite... |
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A missing member of Parliament is found dead, pressed in a bale of wool, and a year later Inspector Roderick Alleyn receives a desperate plea involving him in a gruesome war of espionage in which he... |
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Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, has been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor... and his eccentric household. But she is not prepared for their acts of malice and... |
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| Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder.... |
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| Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful... |
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It's an exotic end for an English spinster. En route to a family vacation on the French Riviera, Inspector Roderick Alleyn glimpses from the train a shocking tableau. In a moonlit window, a... |
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