Ngaio Marsh

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....

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery....

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

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....

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

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play....

The poison was cyanide, slipped into the sacred wine of ecstasy just before it was presented to Miss Cara Quayne at the House of the Sacred Flame....

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences....

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

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....

Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans - who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies - Mary would make her final performance....

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