from ds_61_12

Not my favourite Ngaio Marsh mainly because I don't like the spy theme and I miss Br'er Fox. The plot is good though, the clues are there, although they are rather involved this time. I myself have the 'handicap' that plays an important role, so that does make it interesting, but the way it is us...

from lahochstetler

A rather suspicious and unbelievable set of circumstances finds Inspector Alleyn in New Zealand. In the midst of the thermal springs of northern New Zealand, a rather unpleasant character meets his death by drowning in a pool of boiling mud. The blundering Claire family owns the local resort, and...

from mirihawk

This book is full of disagreeable people and hardly features Mr. Alleyn at all. It's extremely dated and hardly worthy of Ms. Marsh. It's got a dreadful attitude to the native New Zealand population, a hearty disrespect for the transplanted Britishers who one supposes are the protagonists, and th...

from Kristelh

A mystery set in New Zealand during WWII written by Ngaio Marsh, a mystery writer from the Golden Age and one of the Queen's of Crime. I've read three of the four authors and have Margery Allingham left. This was an okay story. I read it for the GeoCAT. The story is in New Zealand area of thermal...