Singing in the Shrouds - Hardcover

Marsh, Ngaio

3.96

2,575 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745120075 ISBN 13: 9780745120072

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1994

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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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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.

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