Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Enter a Murderer
The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn′s most baffling cases when an untalented actor using bribery to achieve stardom is shot on stage.
The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn′s most baffling cases when an untalented actor using bribery to achieve stardom is shot on stage.
A house party gone wrong brings Inspector Roderick Alleyn to investigate the murder, the alibis, a missing butler and a seditious puzzle.
Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
Young and flat broke, Tommy Beresford and Prudence ‘Tuppence’ Cowley are each desperately short of money and decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd. It’s their first job, and one with a twist involving the American Jane Finn carrying secret papers who’s been missing for five years.
Emily Inglethorp has been poisoned. And it seems everyone at Styles Court, from the hired help to family members, had a motive—and the means. But with Detective Hercule Poirot out of retirement and on the case, no one’s getting away with murder.
A cop is found bludgeoned to death, a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private vendetta where everyone is judged.
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder.
New York cop Eve Dallas faces her most ingenious foe: a “secret admirer” who taunts her with letters…and kills without mercy.
The pursuit of an organ-snatching serial killer leaves Eve Dallas’s job on the line.