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Showing posts with label Roderick Alleyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roderick Alleyn. Show all posts
20240218

Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh

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The story of a theatrical entertainment that starts with a bang Ngaio Marsh was one of the four 'Queens of Crime' in detective ficti...
20230525

Death in A White Tie by Ngaio Marsh

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Author does not allow the romance to dominate the story Death in a White Tie is the seventh Alleyn novel Detective Chief Inspector Roderi...
20221016

Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

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Novelist draws on her love for New Zealand and the theatre Vintage Murder begins as Roderick Alleyn makes a train journey across New Zeal...
20220218

Dame Ngaio Marsh had a lifetime love of the theatre

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A detective novelist who brilliantly describes backstage life   Ngaio Marsh, who was one of the leading female detective novelists of her ti...
20220207

Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh

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An unusual setting for a 1936 detective novel with a closed circle of suspects Death in Ecstasy is available as part of a Ngaio Marsh coll...
20211210

The Nursing Home Murder

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Alleyn investigates the killing of a Home Secretary New Zealand-born crime writer Ngaio Marsh displays an impressive wealth of knowledge abo...
20210322

Enter a Murderer

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Complimentary theatre ticket gives Inspector Alleyn a front row seat for murder Patrick Malahide played Alleyn on TV in the 1990s Ngaio Ma...
20210218

Ngaio Marsh’s enduring legacy

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Talented New Zealander contributed to art, the theatre and crime writing Ngaio Marsh pictured in 1935,  early in her writing career One of t...