The art of detection gets clouded by desire. It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck-and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay a fatal dagger, and behind her murder lies all the intrigue and acid-etched temperament of an artist's colony. Called in to investigate, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn finds his own passions unexpectedly stirred by the feisty painter Agatha Troy-brilliant artist and suspected murderess.
No one is more popular on London's champagne-and-cavier circuit than charming Lord Gospell. However, on the morning after the year's most glittering ball, someone find a reason to asphiyxiate Bunchy Gospell in a taxi headed across town. Scotland Yard's Inspector roderick Alleyn is called in to find out who killed his old friend, and to cleaverly unwind a tangle of murky secrets that began far from the ballroom floor. View More...
The queen of British theatre has been murdered, and the incomparable Inspector Roderick Alleyn has more suspects than he could have asked for--or even wanted He'll have to use all of his deductive powers to sort out the suspects and deliver justice by apprehending the real criminal. View More...
The final spectacular volume in St. Martin's Ngaio Marsh Library series. When an actor portraying Macbeth is actually killed during Macbeth's death scene, Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn enters the world of London theater to investigate who could have committed this murder most foul. View More...
