A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . ."Marsh's writing is a pleasure." — The Seattle TimesIt'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" Go...

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 Yard. Un classique de la littérature policière par celle qui fut la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie." Si vous aimez Agatha Christie, vous allez adorer ! ", The GuardianLorsque Arthur Surbonadier s'écroule sur la scène du théâtre londonien ...

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 Alleyn, de Scotland Yard. Un classique de la littérature policière signé Ngaio Marsh, qui fut la grande rivale d'Agatha Christie.La 4e enquête de Roderick Alleyn, par la pionnière du cosy mysteryInvitée à boire le vin rituel au sein du temple de la Flamme...

A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage: "Good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories." — The New York TimesInspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks. And when it comes to interviewing witnesses, actors can be a dec...

A river cruise may be sunk by a ruthless criminal in this novel by "the doyenne of traditional mystery writers" ( The New York Times).Inspector Alleyn's wife, the artist Agatha Troy, has a special fondness for Constables—the paintings, that is, not the policemen. So she jumps at the chance to take a river cruise through "Constable Country" in the east of England, in honor of the nineteenth-century master of landscapes. Her enthusiasm dims a little, though, ...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteriesSURFEIT OF LAMPREYSThe Lampreys were a peculiar family. They entertained their guests with charades – like rich Uncle Gabriel, who was always such a bore. The Lampreys thought if they jollied him up he would bail them out of poverty again. But Uncle Gabriel meets a violent end, and Chief Inspector Alleyn ha...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DEATH IN ECSTASYWho 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 behi...

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 DEADSir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to ...

The inspector digs into a cold case on a New Zealand sheep farm in this "well-sustained crime story" from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master ( Kirkus Reviews).Flossie Rubrick, a highly opinionated and influential member of the New Zealand Parliament, was last seen heading off to one of the storage sheds on her sheep farm. Three weeks later, she turned up dead and packed in a bale of her own wool. What happened on the night of her long-ago disappear...

A Shakespearean actor shuffles off his mortal coil in this "skillfully wrought" country-house mystery ( The New York Times).Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work ends and Inspector Alleyn's begins . . ."It's time to start comparing Christie...

La septième enquête de Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, publiée en 1938." Si vous aimez Agatha Christie, vous allez adorer ! " The GuardianLa saison s'ouvre enfin ! Le tout-Londres est en ébullition. Lunchs, thés dansants, cocktails, bals, frous-frous de robes blanches, champagne... L'atmosphère est à la fête.Mais c'est aussi l'époque qu'a choisie un corbeau pour faire chanter les familles huppées. L'inspecteur Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland...

Folkways turn fatal in a very old-fashioned English village, in this witty mystery filled with "ingenious" detective work ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There's squabbling, of course, and worse—like when one of the ritual's main players is ...