When in Rome - Hardcover

Marsh Ngaio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9997405803 ISBN 13: 9789997405807

Publisher: Collins Crime Club, 1971

Synopsis

Death on a Guided TourIt was April in Rome, and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour. It included a superannuated jetsetter and her junkie nephew, a bad-tempered, ultra-British major, a boisterous Baron and Baroness, and an extremely reticent best-selling author. They were there under the aegis of one Sebastian Mailer, who had promised them a most unconventional tour—a claim no one later disputed, after encountering murder, blackmail and drug-running.Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, in Rome on a special mission, became involved in the case, and found it one of his most baffling—a case in which every suspect might equally well prove a victim…(Publisher’s description)

About this title

Review

‘Excellent Roman detailed background... a lively thriller whodunnit.’
OBSERVER

‘One of her best books for a long time... keeps us guessing most craftily.’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Superintendent Alleyn is as devastating as ever.’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber... Fastidious writing, telling character sketches, a fine appreciation of place.’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘I have no doubt at all that this is the best detective novel you have ever written. It has everything, and will go very far.’
EDMUND CORK, Ngaio Marsh’s literary agent

From the Back Cover

THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES

When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mauler's tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned...

"Ngalio Marsh transforms the detective story from a mere puzzle into a novel."
DAILY EXPRESS

"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngalio Marsh stand out as an empress."
THE SUN

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins Crime Club
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9997405803
• ISBN 13: 9789997405807
• Binding: Hardcover