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 passions. But Roderick Alleyn discovers that the victim had provoked lust and jealousy, and he suspects that more evil still lurks behind the Sign of the Sacred Flame.

Death in Ecstasy

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 John Dickson Carr. 

 The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E. C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts - latterly crowned queen and king of the genre - had crime novels published for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers.

 This new volume in the Bodies from the Library series features the work of 18 prolific authors who, like Christie and Crofts, saw their popularity soar during the Golden Age. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction - stories, serials and plays - and although most of them have been collected in books over the last 100 years, here are the ones that got away.

 In this book you will encounter classic series detectives including Colonel Gore, Roger Sheringham, Hildegarde Withers and Henri Bencolin; Hercule Poirot solves 'The Incident of the Dog's Ball'; Roderick Alleyn returns to New Zealand in a recently discovered television drama by Ngaio Marsh; and Dorothy L. Sayers' chilling 'The House of the Poplars' is published for the first time.

 With a full-length novella by John Dickson Carr and an unpublished radio script by Cyril Hare, this diverse collection concludes with some early 'flash fiction' commissioned by Collins' Crime Club in 1938. Each mini story had to feature an orange, resulting in six very different tales from Peter Cheyney, Ethel Lina White, David Hume, Nicholas Blake, John Rhode and - in his only foray into writing detective fiction - the publisher himself, William Collins.

Bodies from the Library 3 - Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

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 season has begun. Débutantes and chaperones are planning their gala dinners - and the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up and has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first.

 OVERTURE TO DEATHIt was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, and an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck, a shot rings out, and Miss Campanula is dead.it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn.

 DEATH AT THE BARA midsummer evening - darts night at The Plume of Feathers, a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare and a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn.

Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3 - Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar

Les enquêtes de Roderick Alleyn Tome 6

A Christmas pageant turns unholy.Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of the pageant's players mysteriously disappears into the snowy night. Did the hired help-- each a paroled murderer from the nearby prison-- have a deadly hand in this Christmas conundrum? Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to join his wife in finding the lost man-- and unraveling the glaring truth from the glittering tinsel.

Le cercueil de Noël (Roderick Alleyn, #27)

La diva Isabella Sommita n'en peut plus. Où qu'elle se trouve de par le monde, elle croise ce photographe qui s'ingénie à la provoquer pour mieux la fixer dans des poses ridicules qui s'étalent ensuite à la une des journaux. Ulcérée, craignant pour ses nerfs autant que pour sa carrière, la diva décide de faire appel au célèbre inspecteur principal Alleyn de Scotland Yard. Il s'envole pour la Nouvelle-Zélande, direction la villa de Waihoe Lodge où la diva séjourne. Malgré sa présence, les photos continuent, jusqu'à ce dernier cliché qu'on retrouve sur le corps de la diva, un couteau dans le coeur ! Qui pouvait bien lui en vouloir ainsi ? Faut-il chercher dans son passé de Sicilienne, dans son entourage ?La Néo-zélandaise Ngaio Marsh, contemporaine d'Agatha Christie, signe ici un roman fort agréable, au ton léger et très distrayant. L'intrigue pique la curiosité du lecteur et l'entraîne, amusé et conquis, jusqu'au dénouement. Un moment de plaisir. --Sophie Colpaert

Photo d'adieu (Roderick Alleyn, #31)

Pour sa 9e enquête, l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, est dépêché dans un pub du Devon, où un avocat londonien, conseiller personnel du roi, a été retrouvé mort, victime d'un malencontreux tir de fléchette... Une fois de plus, Ngaio Marsh, la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie, atteint sa cible. La 9e enquête de l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, par Ngaio Marsh, la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie. Ottercombe, petit village de pêcheurs pittoresque et paisible dans le sud du Devon. Comme souvent en fin de journée, un aréopage disparate de locaux et de touristes se retrouve au pub Le Bouquet de plumes. Comme souvent, pintes de bière, vieux brandys et parties de fléchettes endiablées rythment la soirée. Comme rarement, une panne d'électricité plonge le pub dans le noir. Et quand se rallument les lumières, gît Luke Watchman, éminent avocat londonien et conseiller du roi, victime d'un malencontreux tir de fléchette... Cette fois encore, l'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, devra viser juste. Tous ont beau jurer que la mort est accidentelle, tous avaient un bon motif pour supprimer l'arrogant avocat... " C'est Agatha Christie qui devrait être comparée à Ngaio Marsh, et non l'inverse. " New York Magazine

Les enquêtes de Roderick Alleyn Tome 9 - Occasion

A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh's most ambitious and innovative novels

 New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife's birthday - a jeroboam of champagne descending gently onto the stage after the performance. But, as Roderick Alleyn witnesses, something goes horribly wrong. Is the death the product of Maori superstitions - or something more down to earth?

Vintage Murder

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.

 Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award 2018.

 It's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lonely Canterbury plains. But when his car breaks down he is stranded for the night at the isolated Mount Seager Hospital, with the telephone lines down, a storm on its way and the nearby river about to burst its banks.

 Trapped with him at Mount Seager are a group of quarantined soldiers with a serious case of cabin fever, three young employees embroiled in a tense love triangle, a dying elderly man, an elusive patient whose origins remain a mystery . and a potential killer.

 When the payroll disappears from a locked safe and the hospital's death toll starts to rise faster than normal, can the appearance of an English detective working in counterespionage be just a lucky coincidence - or is something more sinister afoot?

Death in Ecstasy

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