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

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn...

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

On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing....

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

When the President of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to try to persuade him otherwise....

Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island....

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

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Includes 'A Man Lay Dead', 'A Surfeit of Lampreys', 'Opening Night' and 'When in Rome'....

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

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....

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

Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans - who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies - Mary would make her final performance....

A country house murder, artistic insight and the postwar reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel....

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country....

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

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

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....

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....