Ngaio Marsh

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

The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death - and one of Marsh’s most vivid and dramatic novels....

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer?...

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'....

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 lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes....

Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud.....

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....

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

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