Ngaio Marsh

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'....

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

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....

On a cold February night, the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls....

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

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

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

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

The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases....

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing....

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 case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn....

A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers....