Ngaio Marsh

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

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

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

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'....

Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy....

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

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....

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

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....

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls....

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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

The elderly Emily Pride is perfectly pleased to have inherited an island....