Singing in the Shrouds - Hardcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745119956 ISBN 13: 9780745119953

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1993

Synopsis

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...

About this title

Review:

‘Superlatively good.’
Sunday Times

‘Ngaio Marsh at her intelligent best.’
Times Literary Supplement

‘Astoundingly good... moments of pure hilarity set among moments of real fear. Masterly.’
Daily Express

‘Really excellent... a proper and classic detective story.’
BBC

Book Description:

Another thrilling Ngaio Marsh mystery involving a grizzly death and Roderick Alleyn taking to the seas to uncover the murderer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0745119956
• ISBN 13: 9780745119953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364