- Country-house Mystery, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police
A game of Murder turns deadly when it ends in a real murder, in the country-house of Sir Hubert Handesley. Roderick Alleyn's first case.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Collins, Felony & Mayhem, LLC, Berkley
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002316828
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“Nigel Bathgate, in the language of his own gossip column, was "definitely intrigued" about his week-end at Frantock.”
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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