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Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent Ngaio Marsh

Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent By Ngaio Marsh

Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent by Ngaio Marsh


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Summary

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

Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent Summary

Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 7) by Ngaio Marsh

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

OFF WITH HIS HEAD
When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to investigate local folk-dancing, she quickly antagonizes the villagers. But Mrs Bunz is not the only source of friction. When the sword dancers' traditional mock beheading of the Winter Solstice becomes horribly real, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself faced with a complex case of gruesome proportions...

SINGING IN THE SHROUDS
On a cold February London night, the police find a corpse on the quayside, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer, who walked away singing, is known to be one of nine passengers on the cargo ship, Cape Farewell. Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship on the most difficult assignment of his career...

FALSE SCENT
Mary Bellamy, darling of the London stage, holds a 50th birthday party, a gala for everyone who loves her and fears her power. Then someone uses a deadly insect spray on Mary instead of the azaleas. The suspects, all very theatrically, are playing the part of mourners. Superintendent Alleyn has to find out which one played the murderer...

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

GOR002035859
9780007328758
0007328753
Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 7) by Ngaio Marsh
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
2009-10-29
672
N/A
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