A Man Lay Dead
- 196pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
Il commissario AlleynSerie
Questa serie poliziesca segue il brillante ma signorile Ispettore Roderick Alleyn mentre svela complessi misteri di omicidio. Ogni caso è meticolosamente realizzato, enfatizzando la psicologia dei personaggi e la deduzione elegante. I lettori si ritroveranno coinvolti in trame piene di suspense ambientate in affascinanti scenari inglesi. Offre la classica soddisfazione dei 'whodunit' per gli appassionati del genere.
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Artists in Crime
- 310pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
When murder upsets the creative tranquility of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. And what begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn's career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects-the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection.
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Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.
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Overture To Death
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Amateur actors set the stage for murder... Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her won excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realizes that the murderer might have killed the wrong woman-and may soon stage a repeat performance...
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A Surfeit of Lampreys
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Ngaio Marsh's most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander's first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye...
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Záhadné případy inspektora Alleyna. Děj detektivního příběhu oblíbené autorky se odehrává v exotickém prostředí na jejím rodném Novém Zélandu za 2. světové války. Hrůznou vraždu v maorské rezervaci poblíž termálních lázní přijíždí vyšetřit, tentokrát inkognito, inspektor Roderick Alleyn, který současně pátrá po nepřátelském agentovi. Proslulý kriminalista ze Scotland Yardu se nenechá zmást falešnými stopami a odhalí vraha i vlastizrádce. Autorka, které se ne nadarmo přezdívá druhá Agatha Christie, uchvátí napínavým příběhem i brilantním vylíčením maorského prostředí.
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Klasický detektivní román se odehrává během 2. světové války na Novém Zélandu, kam přijíždí anglický policejní inspektor spolupracovat na případu špionáže. Vrchní inspektor Alleyn přijíždí v roce 1943 na Nový Zéland, aby odhalil pachatele záhadné a brutální vraždy manželky majitele ovčí farmy a zároveň pomohl místní policii v pátrání po špionáži. Obou úkolů se jako obvykle zhostí s úspěchem a nakonec jen taktak unikne vražednému útoku na svou osobu. Vedle zdařilé zápletky vyniká tento detektivní román mistrným prokreslením charakterů, zachycením života na Novém Zélandu za 2. světové války a překrásnými popisy novozélandské horské přírody.
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Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter Felicite. So when a bit of strange business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murderer in their midst.
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Spinsters in Jeopardy
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
For Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the trip was to be official; for his family, a Mediterranean romp. But a plot torn from the pages of a gothic novel soon engulfed them all. Alleyn's son was kidnapped. A very wealthy spinster was murdered. And in an eerie chateau, carved out of the Riviera mountainside, Alleyn faced the ultimate jet-set cult.
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Další z případů vrchního inspektora Alleyna a jeho osvědčeného spolupracovníka Foxe se tentokrát odehrává v malé vesničce na anglickém venkově mezi místní honorací. Hladinu poklidně plynoucího života náhle zčeří nečekaný násilný čin, nevysvětlitelná vražda plukovníka Cartaretta, nejlaskavějšího člověka ve zdejším kraji. Napínavá detektivka, která samozřejmě končí vypátráním a velice překvapivým usvědčením vraha, je ozvláštněna velmi zdařilým vylíčením prostředí a jednotlivých postav příběhu.
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Off with His Head
- 255pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
“I didn’t reckon to be flustered “, said Carey, “but this flustered me, proper. Partly, no doubt, it was the way the Guiser was got up. Like a clown with the tunic thing pulled up. It’d have been over his head if—well, never mind. He didn’t paint his face but he had one of these masks. So he looked, if you can follow me, gentlemen, like a kind of doll that the head had come off of. There was the body, sort of doubled up, and there was the head, two feet away, grinning, which was right nasty...”
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Invitation to Murder… Lady Bantling had a talent for outrageous parties, but she never dreamed her mad treasure hunt would end in murder—with a famous lawyer dead in a drain excavation, his skull bashed in by a pipe… Who had planned this horrendous happening? Superintendent Alleyn probes the alibis of some elegant aristocrats—for the hidden clue to a particularly deadly guest. (Publisher’s description)
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Děj detektivního příběhu Ngaio Marshové se tentokrát odehrává na malém cornwallském ostrůvku v Lamanšském průlivu, kde pomůže ponoření do pramene vody malému prostoduchému chlapci, jenž má plné ruce bradavic. Celá vesnice založí na údajně léčivém prameni svou prosperitu, ale šarlatánství s tím spojené se nelíbí staré slečně Prideové, jež ostrov zdědila a chce vše vrátit do starých kolejí.Po svém příjezdu se však stává terčem nebezpečných útoků a nakonec dochází k záměně osob a k surové vraždě, kterou za přispění místní policie opět vyřeší schopný a elegantní superintendant ze Scotland Yardu Roderick Alleyn, bývalý žák a starý přítel slečny Prideové.
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The discovery of a piece of authentic Shakespearean memorabilia leads to a murder at the recently reopened Dolphin theater and Inspector Alleyn investigates
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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.
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Ngaio Marsh's classic Christmas murder mystery in a special 50th anniversary edition.
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Last Ditch
- 221pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
The last ditch hidden behind a hedge, is a sheer drop, murderously deep—especially when someone stretches a wire across to trip a horse. The last to jump is a young stablehand, who is duly crushed beneath several stone of well-groomed mare. The last straw for Roderick Alleyn is when his young son Ricky becomes involved—right up to his considerably endangered neck...
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Další z případů vrchního inspektora Alleyna ze Scotland Yardu se tentokrát odehrává mezi společenskou smetánkou v malé vesnici v Kentu, kde dojde k několika záhadným vraždám a ke krádeži známky nesmírné ceny. Alleyn se svými spolupracovníky překoná všechny překážky a složitý případ vyřeší s bravurou sobě vlastní. Příběh je napsán v nejlepších tradicích anglické detektivky a kromě napětí mu neschází ani humor.
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Photo Finish
- 264pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
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The owner of the Dolphin Theatre is putting on a production of Macbeth, the play that always brings bad luck. One night, the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real. Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience.
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Money in the Morgue
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
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.
Died in the Wool / Final Curtain / Swing, Brother, Swing
- 768pagine
- 27 ore di lettura
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fifth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
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.
Night at the Vulcan
- 255pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
It's more than opening night jitters. The leading man is found dead after the very first performance. Was it suicide or homicide? Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn takes center stage in the investigation of the unlucky actor's dramatic demise. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Vintage Murder / Death in Ecstasy / Artists in Crime
- 752pagine
- 27 ore di lettura
Celebrating 75 years since the debut of the Empress of Crime, this second volume of omnibus editions compiles the complete series of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Fans of detective fiction will appreciate the collection's depth, showcasing the evolution of the beloved character and the intricate plots that have captivated readers over decades.
Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "The Cupid mirror".
