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Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 303
- Publisher
- Berkley, Collins, little brown
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780007344574
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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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