Dead Water - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

3.87

1,834 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312969902 ISBN 13: 9780312969905

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2002

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Fearless and bold, eighty-year-old Emily Pride embarks on a mission to rid the miraculous "Pixie Falls" healing spring of all its tasteless decorum and attractions, but she is met with major opposition, and when a murder occurs, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives to clear the name of his oldest friend. Reprint.

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‘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

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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'
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'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

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