Ngaio Marsh
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bad news: This is the last in Ngaio Marsh s marvelous Inspector Alleyn series. The good: It's one of her very best. The secret to Light Thickens success may lie in its combination of some of Marsh s greatest passions, including her native New Zealand in the person of, unusually, a Maori character and the theater. Indeed, the plot centers on a production of well, let's skirt disaster by calling it the Scottish play, a play that Dame Ngaio produced...
Author
Series
Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II, for one, keeps intruding. It's war-work, after all, that has brought Alleyn to this seedy hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers - noisy, often drunk, and always over-interested in the nurses. Nor is the weather helping. A storm has killed the electrical power, leaving Alleyn, the soldiers, the...