- Fiction, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction in English
For an unlucky member of parliament, a hospital stay is the unkindest cut of all... When Britain's Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- Berkley, 10-18, G. Bles
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781934609873
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“The Home Secretary, with an air of finality, laid down the papers from which he had been reading and glanced round the table.”
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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