Ngaio Marsh Libri
Ngaio Marsh è stata una maestra della narrazione, i cui romanzi polizieschi sono intrisi della sua profonda passione per il teatro e la pittura. Nel corso di una carriera durata cinquant'anni, ha creato intricati misteri, introducendo l'indimenticabile detective Roderick Alleyn. Le opere di Marsh esplorano spesso i mondi drammatici del palcoscenico e dello studio d'arte, combinando la suspense con acute osservazioni della natura umana. Il suo stile distintivo e la sua profondità tematica hanno consolidato la sua eredità come figura di spicco nell'età d'oro della narrativa poliziesca.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar
- 848pagine
- 30 ore di lettura
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.
Jove Mystery: Hand In Glove
- 239pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent? All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
Black beech and honeydew
an autobiography
The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the influences and environment that have shaped her personality. Widely acclaimed when first published in 1965, Black Beech and Honeydew is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the UK. It captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up and transmits an artist's gradual awareness of the special flavour of life in New Zealand and the individual character of its landscape. Fully revised and updated in 1981, this new edition is reissued 21 years later as a commemoration of Ngaio Marsh's life and work. It is a sanguine, poised, unpretentious, thoughtful and often moving record of a full life, and -- despite its unavailability for nearly 20 years -- has been acclaimed as her most distinguished work. No one who had read and enjoyed any of Ngaio Marsh's 32 novels can afford to overlook this gifted and charming autobiography.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
