β Scribed by Ngaio Marsh
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel. At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and β it later appeared β a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her own life. But no one believed she was the type β especially Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. For the field was ripe with unfortunate engagements β one of them a very grave mistakeβ¦
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