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Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water Ngaio Marsh

Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water By Ngaio Marsh

Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water by Ngaio Marsh


Summary

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the eighth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.

Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water Summary

Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 8) by Ngaio Marsh

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the eighth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.

HAND IN GLOVE
The April Fool's Day was a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr Cartell who ended up in the ditch - for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles. It's all a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn...

DEAD WATER
Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds flock to taste the healing waters of Pixie Falls. When Miss Emily Pride inherits this celebrated land, she wants to put an end to the villagers' exploitation of miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costs's gift shop. But someone puts an end to Miss Cost, and Roderick Alleyn finds himself literally on the spot...

DEATH AT THE DOLPHIN
The bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious oil millionaire, who also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare to display in the dockside theatre. But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, and the glove is stolen. Inspector Roderick Alleyn doesn't think oil and water are a good mix...

About Ngaio Marsh

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.

Additional information

GOR001911795
9780007328765
0007328761
Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 8) by Ngaio Marsh
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20100107
640
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