Ngaio Marsh

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk dancing still practised there, she quickly antagonizes the villagers....

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

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