Dead Water - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006512496 ISBN 13: 9780006512493

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

A quirky Roderick Alleyn mystery about faith, greed – and murder.

Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls.

Then Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated land on which Portcarrow stands and wants to put an end to the villagers’ thriving trade in miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costs’s gift shop.

But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself, and Miss Pride’s guardian angel, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, finds himself on the spot in both senses of the word...

About this title

Review:

‘A beauty... Miss Marsh is a fine, sly, comic writer.’
The Sun

‘A brilliant traditional detective story.’
Evening Standard

‘Reading a Ngaio Marsh mystery is like being in the company of a gracious, spirited raconteur.’
Newsweek

‘The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.’
The Sun

From the Back Cover:

Times are good in the Cornish village of Porthcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls. Then Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated land on which Portcarrow stands and wants to put an end to the villagers' thriving trade in miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costs's gift shop.

But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself, and Miss Pride's guardian angel, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, finds himself on the spot in both senses of the word as he unravels a mystery of faith, greed – and murder...

'The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'A brilliant traditional detective story.'
EVENING STANDARD

'Reading a Ngaio Marsh mystery is like being in the company of a gracious, spirited raconteur.'
NEWSWEEK

'The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.'
THE SUN

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0006512496
• ISBN 13: 9780006512493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256