Died in the Wool - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

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ISBN 10: 0006161510 ISBN 13: 9780006161516

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

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One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks latter she turns up at an auction. Packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very dead.

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Review:

‘In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.’
NEW YORK TIMES

‘Ngaio Marsh is one of the detective novelists whose books I regularly re-read, always the test of a good detective story.’
P.D. JAMES

‘In the front rank of crime-story writers.’
THE TIMES

‘The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.’
THE SUN

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THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES

One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears.

Three weeks later she turns up at an auction – packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead...

"In the front rank of crime-story writers"
THE TIMES

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

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