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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-12-15
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780312972790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe charismatic president of Ng'ombwana in Africa has enemies of every stripe--from ex-colonists to new rivals, from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at the president's lavish embassy party in London, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose the assassin.
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1631940554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fancy hotel plays host to homicide in a “jubilant” novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Sybil Foster lives the sort of little English village that is home mostly to the very rich and the servants who make their lives delightful. But Sybil Foster’s life is not delightful, even if she does have an extremely talented gardener. Exhausted from her various family stresses—a daughter, for instance, who wants to marry a man without a title!—Sybil takes herself off to a local hotel that specializes in soothing shattered nerves. When she’s killed, Inspector Alleyn has a real puzzler on his hands: Yes, she was silly, snobbish, and irritating. But if that were enough motive for murder, half of England would be six feet under . . . “In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.” —The New York Times “The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.” —Times Literary Supplement
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-01-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312972868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuperintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard visits the Channel Islands after a riding accident leads to charges of premeditated murder.
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-02-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780312972974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSybil Foster of Upper Quintern is terribly proud of her gardener and of her new asparagus beds, but when her unwelcome stepson arrives, she heads for "a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director ... and an apparent suicide."--Cover.
Author: Ngaio Marsh
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrave mistake: Superintendent Alleyn investigates the supposed suicide of a wealthy widow in a chic rest spa.
Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-12-11
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0312209428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnd though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Published: 2020-12-14
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1631942131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA horse race turns into a murder case . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune Aristocratic detective Philo Vance has gotten an anonymous invitation to a New York rooftop garden, where a group of wealthy friends gather to listen to the horse races. But on the night Vance attends, a guest dies of a gunshot wound after losing a load of money on a bet. Vance doesn’t think it was suicide, though—and when two other people in the household are targeted, he has to take the lead in this Golden Age mystery featuring the classic character with a “highbrow manner and [a] parade of encyclopedic learning” (The New York Times). “One of the high water mark Van Dine yarns.” —Kirkus Reviews “The perfect sleuth for the Jazz Age.” —CrimeReads “The Philo Vance novels were well-crafted puzzlers that captivated readers . . . the works of S.S. Van Dine serve to transport the reader back to a long-gone era of society.” —Mystery Scene “Outrageous cleverness.” —Bloody Murder
Author: Patricia Moyes
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Published: 2020-11-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1631942484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe husband-and-wife sleuths leave London and take on crime in the Caribbean: “One of the deftest practitioners of the British procedural detective novel.” —The New York Times Book Review Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, have escaped the London winter to bask in the Caribbean sunshine. They have an ulterior motive for the trip, though—to try to help their elderly friend who says she’s being targeted by a cocaine ring. While keeping up the pretense of being clueless, wealthy tourists, the couple pokes around amid the palm trees—and goes to dangerous lengths to find the truth, which will involve Henry himself posing as a drug runner . . . “A new queen of crime . . . her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh.” —Daily Herald “Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters distinguish Patricia Moyes’ writing.” —Mystery Scene
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Published: 2021-07-18
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 163194214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe beloved 1930s comedienne becomes the famed detective’s sidekick in the series that “transport[s] the reader back to a long-gone era of society” (Mystery Scene). During a glamorous night on the town, Gracie Allen finds a dead body—and a cigarette case nearby that belongs to her date for the evening. Detective Philo Vance is on the scene, but questioning Gracie is causing more confusion than enlightenment. To prevent her from creating more chaos, Vance decides to keep her close by as his unofficial sleuthing partner. Now, with the help of the zany star—or in spite of it—he intends to find the real killer . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune “The best of the American mystery men.” —The Globe
Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1137538759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.
