Ngaio Marsh

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous....

The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases....

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate....

Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide....

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Includes 'A Man Lay Dead', 'A Surfeit of Lampreys', 'Opening Night' and 'When in Rome'....

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play....

One of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy....

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery....

The poison was cyanide, slipped into the sacred wine of ecstasy just before it was presented to Miss Cara Quayne at the House of the Sacred Flame....

A country house murder, artistic insight and the postwar reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel....

On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing....

A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers....

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....

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls....

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell, and the coup-de-theatre had become murder....

Christmastime in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there’s murder inside....

On the night of the embassy's reception, the house and grounds are stiff with police....

It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre....

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....

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy returns, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead....