β Scribed by Ngaio Marsh
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy. Mr Glossop is on his regular run delivering wages to the hospitals scattered across New Zealand's Canterbury plains. When his car breaks down, he is forced to stay the night at Mount Gold Hospital, twenty miles from the nearest town, where soldiers recovering from scarlet fever are giving the nursing staff a hard time. When Mr Glossop's payroll disappears from a locked safe and the hospital's death toll starts to rise faster than normal, can the appearance of an English detective working in counterespionage be just a lucky coincidence or an indication that something more sinister is afoot? Renowned with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham as one of the four Golden Age 'Crime Queens', Ngaio Marsh published 32 novels featuring Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn between 1934 and her death in 1982. In 1945 she put aside a new...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
**The Mastermind. The Patsy. The Heist Vegas never saw coming....** At only twenty-five, Honey has a long list of exes in her life; an ex-con father, an ex-husband, and an ex-career as an ATF agent. Playing the cards life has dealt her, she's now working as a blackjack dealer in one of the most pro
Club Reclamation is a place where Vets from all military branches come, chill, grab a drink or meal and find like-minded folks with a story to tell, or problem to share or a soapbox to stand on. If you've served in the Armed Forces, chances are you'll find a friend who gets you and what you've been
**The name is Howard. Bob Howard. Please don't hurt me...** Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker for The Laundry, must stop a ruthless billionaire from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue" from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world... Library : Horror U
### From Publishers Weekly In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to *The Atrocity Archives* (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer ΓΌbergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent m
### From Publishers Weekly In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to *The Atrocity Archives* (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer ΓΌbergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent m