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Classical in form, cool, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Collins, The Crime Club, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782264020925
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First sentence
“JOCELYN JERNIGHAM was a good name.”
About Ngaio Marsh · 1895–1982
Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of New Zealand’s most remarkable and charismatic women, was world-renowned as a leading crime fiction writer and as an eminent Shakespearian producer. --ngaio-marsh.org
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