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 boiling mud and left there to die.
Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn,far from home on a wartime quest for German agents,knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated,the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself...
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780006512387Number of pages: 320Weight: 213 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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'The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers'Times Literary Supplement
'The queen of the straight crime novel - long may she reign!'Sunday Times
'The brilliant New Zealander Ngaio Marsh claims a high level as to sheer writing and still more as a view of humanity.'Elizabeth Bowen
'Nobody begins to touch Ngaio Marsh's skill at creating corpses and suspects... her dialogue is a continuous delight.'New York Herald Tribune
'The finest writer in the English languange of the pure,classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens,Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.'The Sun
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