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Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted -- if he wasn't a spy himself!

Genres

  • Mystery
  • Police
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • Fiction in English
  • Fiction
  • Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction
  • England, fiction
  • New zealand, fiction
  • Modern Literature
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  • Ngaio Marsh

    23 April 1895 - 18 February 1982

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    46 ratings · 101 works

Editions

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    Little, Brown & Company

    1943-01-01

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    Little, Brown and Co. Boston

    1943-01-01

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    Felony & Mayhem Press edition.

    Felony & Mayhem Press, Felony & Mayhem

    2012

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    St. Martin's Paperbacks

    June 15, 1998

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Editions 10/18

June 3, 1999

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    Berkley Publishing Group, Berkley

    May 1984

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Publishing

    January 2000

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    MP3 CD Una edition

    Blackstone Audiobooks

    March 2001

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    Aeonian Press

    1981

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    HarperCollins

    2009

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    Collins, Daedalus Books Inc Remainders

    1943

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    Collins

    1943

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    Fontana, Fontana/Collins

    1974

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    New ed.

    Fontana

    1969

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    New Ed edition

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    April 19, 1999

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    Little, Brown and Company

    1943

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    Jove

    October 1, 1984

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    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

    April 19, 1999

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    Grosset & Dunlap

    1943

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    Berkley Publishing Corp.

    1961-01-01

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    Fontana

    1988-01-01

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    Fontana

    1988-01-01

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    little brown

    1943-01-01

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    New Ed edition

    Daedalus Books Inc Remainders

    October 17, 1988

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audiobooks

    September 2000

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    Daedalus Books Inc Remainders

    October 17, 1988

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    Berkley

    May 15, 1978

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    Large print ed.

    Ulverscroft

    1976

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    Fontana

    1981

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    Berkley

    April 1, 1995

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    Collins

    1960

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    Jove Books

    1982