Dead Water

Good mystery. 83 year old Emily Pride owns an island where apparently miracles occur at a spring. However, she wants to close it down which the locals are upset about as it has become a gold mine. The crazy Miss Cost, drunken Major with a gorgeous wife, Dr Maine and the not so nice father of Wally.......more

This book was very good company on a rainy day. I was lucky enough to find another pristine paperback at the library published by Felony & Mayhem in 2015 on 100% recycled paper, always a good thing. Originally published 1963. The book opens perfectly for someone like me with a tug on the heartstring......more

Dead Water (1963) by Ngaio Marsh takes us back to the village setting--this time a small fishing community at Portcarrow. It begins with a scene two years in the past when a young boy by the name of Wally Trehern experiences what seems to be a miraculous cure. Plagued by warts all over his hands, he......more

Now, I do love Marsh, and I love her Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and I love the tangled webs of her mysteries. But I'm afraid this is not my favorite. In this one Marsh reveals her fundamental, telling ignorance of human character, with her portraits of both the epileptic boy with warts---si......more

This is a wonderful detective story set in the Cornish village of Porthcarrow with a host of characters who are clearly defined to the reader. Wally Trehern is a local boy who has warts on his hands, but soon after he's washed his hands in the local spring / miniature waterfall and seen the Green Lad......more