Ngaio Marsh

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery....

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

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

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy returns, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead....

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

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....

On the night of the embassy's reception, the house and grounds are stiff with police....

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....

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

Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide....