Download or read book Black Beech and Honeydew The Ngaio Marsh Collection written by Ngaio Marsh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.
Download or read book Black Beech and Honeydew written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Library Development Commission. This book was released on 1965 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the mystery writer, born in New Zealand, who started her string of detective stories during leisure hours while she ran a London gift shop.
Download or read book Ngaio Marsh Her Life in Crime written by Joanne Drayton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.
Download or read book Light Thickens written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photo Finish Light Thickens Black Beech and Honeydew written by Ngaio Marsh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Inspector Alleyn novels, an autobiographical work about the author "Black beech & honeydew" plus a bonus story "Morepork". This volume also contains photographs of the author's life.
Download or read book Black beech honeydew written by Ngaio Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ngaio Marsh written by Bruce Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966. Based on years of original research by the curator of the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand, this book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.
Download or read book Died in the Wool written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspector digs into a cold case on a New Zealand sheep farm in this “well-sustained crime story” from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews). Flossie Rubrick, a highly opinionated and influential member of the New Zealand Parliament, was last seen heading off to one of the storage sheds on her sheep farm. Three weeks later, she turned up dead and packed in a bale of her own wool. What happened on the night of her long-ago disappearance? In the country on counterespionage duty, Inspector Roderick Alleyn is happy to lend a hand. “The doyenne of traditional mystery writers.” —The New York Times
Download or read book Death in Ecstasy written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ritual Wine Taste of Evil When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.
Download or read book Photo Finish written by Ngaio Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
Download or read book Clutch of Constables When in Rome Tied Up in Tinsel written by Ngaio Marsh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in Rome - When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Sebastian Mailer's tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned!
Download or read book Colour Scheme written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery with “atmosphere, humor . . .and a group of characters, English, Maori, and New Zealander, who are fascinating and completely credible.” —The New York Times During World War II, Colonel Claire—a tremendously nice fellow and a disastrously bad businessman—runs a mud-baths resort in rural New Zealand. But the place is on the brink of being taken over by a local blowhard who may be a Nazi spy. Inspector Alleyn has been sent in to sort things out—and don a disguise in order to blend in the resort’s motley cast of characters—in this classic tale of detection from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine
Download or read book A Man Lay Dead written by Ngaio 1895-1982 Marsh and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Death on the Nile Parker Pyne An Agatha Christie Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Download or read book Women Authors of Detective Series written by Moira Davison Reynolds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.
Download or read book Murder Most Poetic written by Mary S. Weinkauf and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Weinkauf provides a complete overview of Ngaio Marsh's crime novels, from her beginnings in 1934 to her final book, "Light Thickens," published posthumously in 1982.
Download or read book Ngaio Marsh written by Beverly Jean Rahn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated festschrift presents a comprehensive profile of a remarkable woman with articles treating various aspects of her personality, life, and work.
