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A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...
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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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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Berkley, Felony & Mayhem, LLC, Collins
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780708943625
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“Nurse Kettle pushed her bicycle to the top of Watt's Hill and there paused.”
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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