Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh

Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh

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 in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, a Member of Parliament and one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech and disappears. It turns out she had the wool pulled over her eyes--quite literally. Three weeks later she's found dead, her body pressed into a bale of wool. When Inspector Roderick Alleyn pays a visit to her country home, he meets two fine, handsome men and two lovely young women, all of whom have reason to be grateful to dear Flossie for saving their lives. But as Inspector Alleyn learns, there are secrets aplenty hiding in the floorboards of that sheep station, and one in particular conceals a murderous motive that has the look and smell of treason.

‘In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature’
NEW YORK TIMES

‘Ngaio Marsh is one of the detective novelists whose books I regularly re-read, always the test of a good detective story.’
P.D. JAMES

‘In the front rank of crime-story writers.’
THE TIMES

‘The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.’
THE SUN

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that she received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.

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ISBN 13	9780006512394
ISBN 10	0006512399
Titre	Died in the Wool
Auteur	Ngaio Marsh
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	HarperCollins Publishers
Année de publication	1999-12-06
Nombre de pages	272
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