Ngaio Marsh Boeken
Ngaio Marsh was een meesterlijke verteller wiens misdaadromans doordrenkt zijn van haar diepe waardering voor theater en schilderkunst. Gedurende een carrière van vijftig jaar creëerde ze ingewikkelde mysteries, waarbij ze de memorabele detective Roderick Alleyn introduceerde. Marshs werken verkennen vaak de dramatische werelden van het podium en het kunstenaarsatelier, waarbij spanning wordt gecombineerd met scherpe observaties van de menselijke natuur. Haar onderscheidende stijl en thematische diepgang bevestigden haar nalatenschap als een prominente figuur in de gouden eeuw van de detectivefictie.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar
- 848bladzijden
- 30 uur lezen
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Jove Mystery: Hand In Glove
- 239bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent? All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
Black beech and honeydew
an autobiography
The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the influences and environment that have shaped her personality. Widely acclaimed when first published in 1965, Black Beech and Honeydew is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the UK. It captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up and transmits an artist's gradual awareness of the special flavour of life in New Zealand and the individual character of its landscape. Fully revised and updated in 1981, this new edition is reissued 21 years later as a commemoration of Ngaio Marsh's life and work. It is a sanguine, poised, unpretentious, thoughtful and often moving record of a full life, and -- despite its unavailability for nearly 20 years -- has been acclaimed as her most distinguished work. No one who had read and enjoyed any of Ngaio Marsh's 32 novels can afford to overlook this gifted and charming autobiography.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Died in the Wool / Final Curtain / Swing, Brother, Swing
- 768bladzijden
- 27 uur lezen
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fifth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Photo Finish
- 264bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country. schovat popis
