When in Rome - Softcover

Ngaio Marsh

3.84

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0515075043 ISBN 13: 9780515075045

Publisher: Jove, 1983

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Two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh short stories. In Opening Night, a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room. It looks like suicide, until it transpires that he was widely detested. Inspector Alleyn quickly realises that almost everyone in the theatre had a motive for his murder. Jeremy Clyde stars as Inspector Alleyn. When In Rome finds Inspector Alleyn joining a group of highly suspicious tourists on a visit to a Roman catacomb. The corpse he finds in an ancient sarcophagus has been very recently murdered...

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Review:

‘Excellent Roman detailed background... a lively thriller whodunnit.’
OBSERVER

‘One of her best books for a long time... keeps us guessing most craftily.’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Superintendent Alleyn is as devastating as ever.’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber... Fastidious writing, telling character sketches, a fine appreciation of place.’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘I have no doubt at all that this is the best detective novel you have ever written. It has everything, and will go very far.’
EDMUND CORK, Ngaio Marsh’s literary agent

From the Back Cover:

THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES

When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mauler's tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned...

"Ngalio Marsh transforms the detective story from a mere puzzle into a novel."
DAILY EXPRESS

"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngalio Marsh stand out as an empress."
THE SUN

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