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"An eccentric English Lord stages a bizarre 'murder' at a society nightclub, and Inspector Roderick Alleyn is along for the fun. But the joke turns grim when the corpse doesn't laugh -- and it is discovered that the staged murder is the cover for a read one!"
Price: 3.95 USD

Another of Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn mysteries. "England is at war, and this means 'spy fever' for a quarrelsome collection of patriots at a shabby New Zealand resort. Inspector Roderick Alleyn joins them incognito when their amateurish sleuthing results in a macabre murder that shocks even Scotland Yard!"
Price: 3.35 USD

"Settling in for a cozy night of brandy and darts at the pub, an inebriated lawyer suffers a seemingly harmless dart puncture. But within moments of his injury, the unlucky barrister loses more than a simple game of darts -- he loses his life. Called in to investigate this alleged accident, Inspector Roderick Alleyn wonders about the rules of this friendly bar game - and probes into a pub full of motives for murder . . ."
Price: 4.50 USD

"One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, 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."
Price: 3.50 USD

An Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery.
"Lady Banting had a talent for outrageious parties, but she never dreamed her treasure hunt would end in murder -- with a famous lawyer dead, his skull bashed in by a pipe.
Who planned this horrendous happening?
Inspector Alleyn probes the alibis of some elegant aristocrats -- for the hidden clue to a particularly deadly guest. "
Price: 4.55 USD

"Light Thickens is the last book by one of the greatest of all mystery writers, the late Dame Ngaio Marsh. It seems that Peregrine Jay, director of London's Dolphin Theatre, has a tricky problem on his hands: how to stage MacBeth successfully with a volatile cast of eccentric actors, and despite some rather sinister goings-in, such as the disembodied head of Banquo's ghost that keeps turning up in strange places, the large swords left where they might kill someone, and several other disturbing deeds. Soon the entire cast, from the glamorous and shrewd Maggie Mannering to the moody and mercurial Simon Morten, is grumbling about the damned 'Scot's play'. Then one day Peregrine happens to be in the audience with his children to watch a performance. In the final scene, just before the curtain falls, the script calls for one spectacular moment of drama involving the claidheamh-mor, or claymore, a giant Scottish battle sword the actors use to stage fight scenes. But this time something is wrong, murderously wrong --- the gore on stage is real! Fortunately for them all, another member of the audience sees it too --- none other than Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. Light Thickens is a superb conclusion to the long and celebrated writing career of Dame Ngaio Marsh, and to the ingenious investigations of Chief Superintendent Alleyn."
Price: 7.25 USD

"Swevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge."
Price: 4.70 USD