- Fiction, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Police, British
One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Collins, Berkley, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9781455123322
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“A service car pulled out of the township below the Pass.”
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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