Ngaio Marsh

On stage at the Unicorn Theatre, an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet, killing Arthur Surbonadier. The suspects included girlfriends and blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.

Enter a Murderer

The new play at the Unicorn is the event of the year until the final act leaves an actor dead, and Inspector Alleyn must uncover the killer who wrote murder into the playbill--one of two people who had access to the prop box. Reprint.

Enter A Murderer

A model is murdered in this “first-rate” detective story by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews). On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn tedious and dull; he thinks she’s a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there’s a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother’s house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, than he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists’ community down the road. And the talented Miss Troy is one of the community’s most prominent and outspoken members . . . “The doyenne of traditional mystery writers.” —The New York Times

Artists in Crime

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

Death and the Dancing Footman

A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . .“Marsh’s writing is a pleasure.” —The Seattle Times It’s debutante season in London, and that means giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances . . ..and much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn’s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord “Bunchy” Gospell, everybody’s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than lovable; he’s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can unmask the blackmailer, a murder is announced. And everyone suddenly stops giggling . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “[Her] writing style and vivid characters and settings made her a mystery novelist of world renown.” —The New York Times

Death in a White Tie

This latest release in St. Martin's republication of Marsh novels revolves around a Druid Christmas pageant at Halberds Manor where a corpse turns up. There is no lack of suspects--every member of the manor house staff is a paroled murderer. It's up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to unmask the real killer.

Tied Up In Tinsel

As jovens debutantes suspiram, ansiosas. As mães casamenteiras planeiam minuciosamente cada lanche, baile e jantar. Em Londres, uma nova temporada está prestes a começar. Mas por detrás de tão enérgica atividade, a alta sociedade está a ser vítima de um crime tão abjeto quanto silencioso. Alguém está a chantagear as mais notáveis famílias da cidade... e essa pessoa também planeia cuidadosamente todos os seus passos. O inspetor-chefe Roderick Alleyn, ele próprio um aristocrata, move-se suficientemente bem naquele meio para perceber que algo de estranho se passa. Encontrou, até, o aliado perfeito. O seu amigo Lorde Robert Gospell aceitou misturar prazer e dever num dos bailes mais aguardados do ano. E para mal dos seus pecados, o bom lorde descobriu o culpado...

Crime de Luxo

The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas and balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn knew that something was up."

Inspector Roderick Alleyn finds his vacation cut short when a famous producer ends up killed by a wine bottle, leading Alleyn to investigate the actors of a theater company, as well as the dead man's wife. Reprint.

Vintage Murder

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead.

Died in the Wool

It was planned as an act of charity - a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its extension was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead.

Overture to Death

Agatha Troy, world famous painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies and Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in.

Final Curtain

When a member of a wealthy cult, the House of the Sacred Flame, dies "accidentally" after drinking the ritual wine during a ceremony, Inspector Roderick Alleyn must discover who dosed the wine with the fatal prussic acid. Reprint.

Death in Ecstasy

High in the mountains stands the Saracen fortress, home of Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the castle, however, that intrigues Roderick Alleyn but the suspicion that a huge drugs ring operates from within its ancient portals.

Spinsters in Jeopardy

The indomitable Inspector Roderick Alleyn is sent to sniff out the case of the beloved "queen of British theater," Mary Bellamy, who has been found murdered in a cloud of perfume--a case reeking with likely suspects. Reprint.

False Scent

An art model strikes a deadly pose that leaves the members of Agatha Troy's art class and Inspector Roderick Alleyn wondering whodunit?

It's murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. They were (and are) waspish, gossiping snobs, passionate only about their own narrowly defined religion....and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.

A Man Lay Dead - Enter a Murderer - The Nursing Home Murder

Despite two husbands being dead and a daughter marrying the wrong man, no one believed Sybil Foster would commit suicide, especially Roderick Alleyn. For the field was ripe with unfortunate engagements - one of them a very grave mistake.

Grave Mistake

MURDER IN HIGH C... A persistent paparazzi has hounded operatic soprano Isabella Sommita until her nerves are at the breaking point. Now her millionaire boyfriend has whisked her to a New Zealand island to recover. There she plans a performance of an aria written just for her-- by her secret young lover, who, along with a bevy of envious celebrities, is also on the island. It's the perfect set-up for grand opera-- wild passions...and bloody murder. And when the great singer is found dead, a photo on her bosom, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn must find out who did the diva in...

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