Ngaio Marsh

Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work....

A man dies with his hand on a radio dial....

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn...

Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander’s first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye....

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous....

Christmastime in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there’s murder inside....

The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases....

On the night of the embassy's reception, the house and grounds are stiff with police....

On a cold February night, the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls....

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....

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate....

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy returns, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead....

It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre....

The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes....

Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn, had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book....

A country house murder, artistic insight and the postwar reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel....

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell, and the coup-de-theatre had become murder....

Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island....

When an inhabitant of the small community os Swevenings is found brutally murdered, beside him is the freshly killed trout....

The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death - and one of Marsh’s most vivid and dramatic novels....