Ngaio Marsh - Libros y biografía

A classic Ngaio Marsh mystery thriller combining drugs and sacrifice. High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches....

Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels. When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica,...

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences. At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together...

Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island – and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels....

Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel. Who slipped cyanide into the ceremonial wine of ecstasy at the House of the Sacred Flame? The other initiates and the High Priest claim to be above earthly...

La huitième enquête de Roderick Alleyn, inspecteur de Scotland Yard, par Ngaio Marsh, la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie.Novembre 1938. La fine fleur du village de Chippingwood s'écharpe pour choisir...

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh’s 1930s novels. The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons,...

One of Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novels, this time featuring one of her best creations – Lucy Lockett, the crime-solving cat. When the exuberant president of Ng’ombwana proposes to dispense...

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

Ngaio Marsh’s bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time. Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse...

Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last – and best – novels. The luxury mansion on New...

The only collection of Ngaio Marsh short stories, first published in 1995 to celebrate her centenary, now with two additional stories. A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A disguised aristocrat...

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country. ’He looks upon the murders that he did in fact...

With this novel of mounting tension among apparently normal people, Ngaio Marsh achieved a triumph on a level with her most famous detective novels Surfeit of Lampreys, Scales of Justice and Off With...

A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel. Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is...

One of Ngaio Marsh’s most ingenious 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 – for ever....

The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death – and one of Marsh’s most vivid and dramatic novels. When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious...

La Reine du Cosy Mystery. Avec Le jeu de l'assassin... , les éditions Archipoche rééditent deux des 32 romans de Ngaio Marsh mettant en scène son personnage fétiche, l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn de Scotland...

La Reine du Cosy Mystery. Réédition du premier des 32 romans de Ngaio Marsh mettant en scène son personnage fétiche, l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn de Scotland Yard. Lauréate du Grand Master Award décerné...

La septième enquête de Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, publiée en 1938. " Si vous aimez Agatha Christie, vous allez adorer ! "The Guardian La saison s'ouvre enfin ! Le tout-Londres est en ébullition....

Champagne pour la 5e enquête de Roderick Alleyn, par la grande rivale d'Agatha ChristieEn tournée en Nouvelle-Zélande, Alfred Meyer et sa troupe de théâtre s'apprêtent à célébrer l'anniversaire de Carolyn,...

Un temple dirigé un pseudo prêtre illuminé. Une adepte en transe qui meurt foudroyée après avoir bu une potion sacrée, mais empoisonnée... Les éditions Archipoche rééditent la quatrième enquête de Roderick...

Réédition du troisième des 32 romans de Ngaio Marsh mettant en scène l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn de Scotland Yard, qui enquête sur l'empoisonnement du ministre de l'Intérieur. Lauréate du Grand Master...

Sir Charles Lamprey et sa famille un brin décalée sont de retour en Angleterre. Ruinés, ils implorent l'Oncle O., le frère de Charles, de leur venir en aide. Ce dernier refuse mais meurt peu de temps...

" Si vous aimez Agatha Christie, vous allez adorer ! "The Guardian La 9e enquête de l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, par Ngaio Marsh, la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie. Ottercombe,...

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. DEATH IN A WHITE TIEThe...

Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike....

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand....

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and...