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With this novel of mounting tension among apparently normal people, Ngaio Marsh achieved a triumph on a level with her most famous detective novels Surfeit of Lampreys, Scales of Justice and Off With His Head.
On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing.
When the cargo ship, Cape Farewell, sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career...
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‘Superlatively good.’
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‘Ngaio Marsh at her intelligent best.’
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‘Astoundingly good... moments of pure hilarity set among moments of real fear. Masterly.’
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‘Really excellent... a proper and classic detective story.’
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Another thrilling Ngaio Marsh mystery involving a grizzly death and Roderick Alleyn taking to the seas to uncover the murderer.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0006512461
- ISBN 13 9780006512462
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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