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British & Irish
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike. Shortlisted for the CWA... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEAD Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume of the 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the sixth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. OPENING NIGHT Dreams of stardom lured Martyn Tarne... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DEATH IN A WHITE TIE The season has begun... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The final volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. PHOTO-FINISH The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a world-famous soprano to rest... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS The Lampreys were a peculiar... See More
Anthologies & Literature Collections
The tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED Called in to help with security arrangements for a presidential reception at a London... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel. Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A brutal murder with a golf club and an ingenious plot bursting with snobbery, suspicion , adultery and secrets - to say nothing of the dreadful crime of catricide... The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
One of Ngaio Marsh's most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy. It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel. At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and - it later appeared - a debilitating disease, it was... See More
British & Irish
The only collection of Ngaio Marsh short stories, first published in 1995 to celebrate her centenary, now with two additional stories. A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A disguised aristocrat finds murder at the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which she more than lives up to her reputation as a crime writer of intelligence and style. It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ngaio Marsh's most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander's first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye... The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no... See More
Anthologies
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels. The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh's last - and best - novels. The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A classic Ngaio Marsh mystery thriller combining drugs and sacrifice. High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the historic castle... See More
Anthologies & Literature Collections
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 Bünz... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DIED IN THE WOOL One summer evening in 1942... See More
Urban
Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh's most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island - and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels. One summer evening... See More
Classics
The ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES According to Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, 'the Jampot' is an international crook who... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh's liveliest and most evocative novels. When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Christmas time in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there's murder inside. When a much disliked visiting servant disappears without trace after playing Santa Claus, foul play is at once... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel. Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time. Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too... See More