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,MP,one of the most formidable women in New Zealand,goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears.
Three weeks later she turns up at an auction - packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very,very dead...
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780006512394Number of pages: 272Weight: 180 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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'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
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