Ngaio Marsh

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

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

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....

When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman basilica, the members of Mr. Sebastian Mailer’s tour group seem strangely unperturbed....

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....

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

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....

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....

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck....