$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
| Series: The\Ngaio Marsh Collection
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech â and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction â packed inside one of her very own bales of wool and very, very dead .
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech â and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction â packed inside one of her very own bales of wool and very, very dead . . . âÂÂThe brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Chrisitie and Dorothy Sayers'â TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT âÂÂIn her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.â NEW YORK TIMES âÂÂNgaio Marsh is one of the detective novelists whose story books I regularly re-read, always the test of a good detective story.â P.D.JAMES âÂÂThe finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stand out as an Empress.â THE SUN DonâÂÂt miss the other Inspector Alleyn novels available in this series, including: 'The Nursing Home Murder, final curtain, Death at the Dolphin, When in Rome' and 'Photo-Finish.' Reviews 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 First published 1945.
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