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....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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'....

A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday.... A bit snobbish and a trifle high strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern....

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

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....

The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr Cartell, who had ended up in the ditch - forever....

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....