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  • Colour Scheme

  • By: Ngaio Marsh
  • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
  • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Colour Scheme

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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Publisher's Summary

Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself.

©1943 Original Text of 1943 by Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio
Crime Fiction Cosy International Mystery & Crime Traditional Detectives Espionage Suspense Fiction Mystery Detective
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Critic Reviews

"The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers." ( Times Literary Supplement)
"Nobody begins to touch Ngaio Marsh’s skill at creating corpses and suspects...her dialogue is a continuous delight." ( New York Herald Tribune)
"The queen of the straight crime novel - long may she reign!" ( Sunday Times)

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As a Kiwi I was incensed that the narration was by an Englishman whose supposed Kiwi accent is Australian. I could not listen to it! There are many Kiwi actors who would have made authentic narrators.

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No good without Rodney

Oh dear I do love these stories except this one doesn’t work for me not Rodney Allen. No good he has such class.

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