A bundle of novels from the pen of Ngaio Marsh, all featuring her creation Inspector Alleyn. Marsh was one of the dominant female crime writers of the Golden Age of crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.
Vintage Murder - reprinted, 1949
New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up on stage after the performance. But something went horribly wrong. Inspector Alleyn witnessed it himself. Was Meyer’s death the product of Maori superstitions? Or something much more down to earth?
A Man Lay Dead - reprinted, 1949
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley’s original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a ‘murder’ in the dark and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time there is a real corpse…
Surfeit of Lampreys - Penguin 1st, 1955
Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer?
Enter a Murderer - reprinted, 1949
The crime was committed on stage at the Unicorn Theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was Arthur Surbonadier, an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Inspector Alleyn’s most baffling cases.
All of these books are originals, published by Penguin Books. All books are in fair to good condition but please note there may be corner folds, inscriptions, tears, signs of wear etc. inside some of these books and not shown in photographs which form part of the description and are reflected in the price.
A bundle of novels from the pen of Ngaio Marsh, all featuring her creation Inspector Alleyn. Marsh was one of the dominant female crime writers of the Golden Age of crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.
Vintage Murder - reprinted, 1949
New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up on stage after the performance. But something went horribly wrong. Inspector Alleyn witnessed it himself. Was Meyer’s death the product of Maori superstitions? Or something much more down to earth?
A Man Lay Dead - reprinted, 1949
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley’s original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a ‘murder’ in the dark and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time there is a real corpse…
Surfeit of Lampreys - Penguin 1st, 1955
Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer?
Enter a Murderer - reprinted, 1949
The crime was committed on stage at the Unicorn Theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was Arthur Surbonadier, an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Inspector Alleyn’s most baffling cases.
All of these books are originals, published by Penguin Books. All books are in fair to good condition but please note there may be corner folds, inscriptions, tears, signs of wear etc. inside some of these books and not shown in photographs which form part of the description and are reflected in the price.
