Edith Ngaio Marsh (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 252 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Grave Mistake is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The death of wealthy hypochondriac Sybil Foster at fashionable Greengages is looked into by Superintendent Roderick Alleyn and Sybil's friend, Verity Preston, both of whom are puzzled by the absence of motives and suspects. Condition: Light sunning to heal edges. Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. 270 Pp. Brown Cloth Lettered In Red. First Edition Stated, 1945. Light Wear, Slight Fraying At Ends Of Spine, Former Owner's Name.

Condition: Good. Detective - Rickie Alleyn had come to the island to write, but village life was tedious - until he found a dead stablehand. It might have ended there had Rickie not noticed some strange and puzzling things. Rickie's father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, is called in to investigate.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 254 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First British edition. False Scent is a detective novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1960, by Collins in the UK and Little, Brown in the USA. The plot concerns the murder of a West End stage actress during her 50th birthday party, and continues Marsh's fascination with the theatre and with acting. False Scent was well received and sold well, although biographer Joanne Drayton describes it as a "cleverly characterized but, after Alleyn's investigation begins, rather inert novel", and writes of Marsh dramatising the novel with a great family friend Eileen Mackay for a Worthing repertory company ("she wrestled with what she believed was one of her weaker novels"), quoting Marsh's own typically modest comment: "I think the fault may well be that like so many of my books it falls between teckery [as she termed her detective fiction] and a comedy of manners." The novel's theatrical world and characters, as in many of Marsh's detective novels, are entirely convincing, offering two of the writer's most characteristic talents: a gruesomely ingenious murder method and plot in the classic whodunit style, along with an entertaining social comedy of manners. Condition: Previous owner's name and date to front paste down, foxing to page ends. Jacket spine ends chipped with closed edge tears else very good in like jacket.

[Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.253; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £7.50. 21s. Text block toned. Lightly used, jacket with minor wear. Very good. The final murder-mystery novel from Dame Ngaio Marsh, once again using the Dolphin Theatre as the setting.