Ngaio Marsh

Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people—among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production....

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

Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander’s first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye....

Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder.

When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about....

A man dies with his hand on a radio dial....

One of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy....

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate....

Christmastime in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there’s murder inside....

Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn, had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book....

The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases....

Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work....

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....

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences....

High in the mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr. Oberon, leader of a coven of witches....

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....

Now Sir Henry was dead, after a large and lethal birthday dinner of champagne and crayfish, and after changing his will in favor of his glamorous young fiancee....

When murder upsets the creative tranquility of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator.....

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

Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities, until one of the pageant's players mysteriously disappears into the snowy night....