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‘In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘Ngaio Marsh is one of the detective novelists whose books I regularly re-read, always the test of a good detective story.’
P.D. JAMES
‘In the front rank of crime-story writers.’
THE TIMES
‘The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.’
THE SUN
THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears.
Three weeks later she turns up at an auction – packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead...
"In the front rank of crime-story writers"
THE TIMES
"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an express."
THE SUN
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