When the Sword Dancer's mock beheading becomes horribly real, it is Superintendent Roderick Alleyn who must discover who had the best motive for...
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“Murder. What a beastly soft sound the word makes!” With a corpse in a pack of raw...
A model murder… where a famous painter Agatha Troy, R.A., makes her...
New Zealand, Maoris, murder… Who is better qualified to write about them than Ngaio...
On vacation in New Zealand, Inspector Alleyn meets a theater troupe engaged in a real-life drama more killing than anything they’ve ever staged. When the producer is struck down at a celebration party with a jeroboam of champagne. Inspector...
A footman should not be dancing when on duty. But suppose he does — what will be the consequences for the solving of a murder...
The woman stretched both her hands out and the priest gave her the cup.
“The wine of ecstasy gives joy to your body and soul.”
She raised the cup to her lips. Her head tipped back until the last drop must have been drained. Suddenly she...
Everyone in town disliked the rich, nasty spinster who delighted in stirring up jealousies and exposing well-kept secrets — the doctor’s wild affair, the old squire’s escapades, the young squire’s revels. But when the lady was shot at the...
Inspector Alleyn had so many suspects for the murder of the Home Secretary, that, for once, he was at a loss. Except for one detail — one grisly little detail — that only the likes of Roderick Alleyn would ever...
The second book from Chief-Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn...