Ngaio Marsh

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

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'....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn....

A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday.... A bit snobbish and a trifle high strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern....

The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe was the ideal place for the world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour....

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....

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

When an inhabitant of the small community os Swevenings is found brutally murdered, beside him is the freshly killed trout....

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