Product Description

A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel. Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in -- in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211613 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
'...purty ngai perfect.' Saturday Review of Literature 'She uses the old formula brilliantly.' Julian Symons 'A better novel than a detective story.' Toronto Globe and Mail 'The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.' The Sun

About the Author
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that she received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
A very entertaining murder mystery with enough twists to keep you gripped to the end. I cannot find fault in this book!