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Black Beech and Honeydew - POD by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the in ...Show more
Bodies from the Library 3 by Tony Medawar (Editor); Agatha Christie; Ngaio Marsh; Dorothy L. Sayers; Anthony Berkeley; Nicholas Blake
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr. The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication o ...Show more
Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Reading Level: very good
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
On stage at the Unicorn Theatre, an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet, killing Arthur Surbonadier, an actor using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included girlfriends and blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.
Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Murder gets into the act in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel-and a Shakespearean actor takes his final bow. Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not prepared for th ...Show more
Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, so the old superstition of the acting fraternity says, always brings bad luck. One night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real, and murder takes centre stage. Luckily, Chie ...Show more
Surfeit of Lamfreys Fs by Marsh Ngaio
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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 Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar - and rather gloried in it. The double and tr ...Show more
The Ngaio Marsh Collection #3 - Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: The Ngaio Marsh Collection
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DEATH IN A WHITE TIE The season has begun. Debutantes and chaperones are planning their gala dinners - and the blackmailer is planni ...Show more
The Ngaio Marsh Collection #6 - Opening Night / Spinsters In Jeopardy / Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: The Ngaio Marsh Collection
Commemorating 75 years since the NZ born Empress of Crime's first book, the sixth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. OPENING NIGHT Dreams of stardom lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to a soul-destroying round of West End agents an ...Show more