Ngaio Marsh

Money in the Morgue

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II keeps intruding with war-work that has brought Alleyn to a hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers. A storm has killed the electrical power, leaving Alleyn, the soldiers, the medical staff and all stranded in the dark...with a murderer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Felony & Mayhem
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781631941726
• ISBN-10: 1631941720
• Artikelnr.: 52711810

Autorenporträt

Dame Ngaio Marsh (whose first name is pronounced "NYE-oh), was born and grew up in New Zealand, and moved to England in the late 1920s. Bored and out of sorts on a wet weekend, she wrote A Man Lay Dead, first of the 32 novels featuring Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard; the series would eventually see her named one of England's four "queens of crime" (alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Margery Allingham), and earn her a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, for her lifetime achievements in crime fiction. Despite these accolades, Marsh's true passion was for the theater (and many fans regard the "Alleyn" novels with theatrical settings as her best). In 1966, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to theater in New Zealand. Marsh died in 1982, leaving behind a passionate fan-base and the opening chapters of....Money In the Morgue. Like Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy has been a celebrated actor and theatrical producer, as well as a playwright, but she is perhaps best known as a novelist, the author of five crime-novels featuring lesbian private-eye Saz Martin, and nine works of literary fiction. The youngest of seven children, Duffy spent her childhood in New Zealand, but moved to England as an adult; she now lives in London. In 2016 Duffy was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to the arts.

Rezensionen

'Stella Duffy performs a remarkable act of ventriloquism with New Zealand's Queen of Crime. I defy readers to see the join' VAL McDERMID

'A proper Golden Age set up of suspects and plot, a wonderful sense of place and period, and a real frisson of being with Alleyn himself! I can't imagine anyone doing it better - Stella Duffy is the natural successor to Dame Ngaio' KATE MOSSE

'Ngaio Marsh fans rejoice! After 35 years Alleyn is back in a new mystery - and both are as good as ever' JOHN CURRAN

'Marsh and Duffy have created A Midsummer Night's Dream with corpses, clues and Kiwi accents. Ingenious indeed' ANDREW TAYLOR, THE SPECTATOR

'Fans all over the world will, I'm sure, hope that there are more stories to come.' SOPHIE HANNAH, THE GUARDIAN

'I absolutely love Ngaio Marsh! She's probably my favourite golden age doyenne' A.J. FINN, author of The Woman in the Window

'A more appropriate 'completist' author could hardly have been wished for' MIKE RIPLEY, SHOTS Magazine

'One of the most successful resurrections of another author's character I've come across.' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Clever stuff. Ngaio Marsh would give it nine out of ten' DAILY MAIL

'Duffy captures Marsh's style, dialogue and mood brilliantly' THE TIMES

'A complicated tale, so well completed by Stella Duffy that I was quite unable to see the join' LITERARY REVIEW

"A taut atmospheric whodunit ... Duffy's facility at injecting wit into fair-play detecting will make Marsh fans hope she'll continue the series." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Though tart noir specialist Duffy might seem an unlikely choice to flesh out the skeleton Marsh left behind, fans will be hard-pressed to find the joint between the two writers." KIRKUS REVIEW

"An extraordinary literary tag-team completed 75 years after it began." THE LISTENER (NZ)