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'The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers' Times Literary Supplement 'The queen of the straight crime novel -- long may she reign!' Sunday Times 'The brilliant New Zealander Ngaio Marsh claims a high level as to sheer writing and still more as a view of humanity.' Elizabeth Bowen 'Nobody begins to touch Ngaio Marsh's skill at creating corpses and suspects... her dialogue is a continuous delight.' New York Herald Tribune 'The finest writer in the English languange of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.' The Sun

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Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted -- if he wasn't a spy himself...
 
 


Category: 102
Condition: New
ISBN: 0006512380  Published: 1999-04-19
Author: Ngaio Marsh  
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd





                      
                      
                      


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