Died in the Wool, Ngaio Marsh
Died in the Wool, Ngaio Marsh
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Died in the Wool

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/17/2005


Synopsis

A missing member of Parliament is found dead, pressed in a bale of wool, and a year later Inspector Roderick Alleyn receives a desperate plea involving him in a gruesome war of espionage in which he becomes as much the quarry as the hunter.

About Ngaio Marsh

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 18, 2021

This Alleyn mystery is set in a New Zealand isolated sheep farm where Mrs Rubrick a woman not well liked and a busy body is murdered. She is put in a wool bale and found a few weeks later. Lots of suspects her nephew Grace who inherits her money, her husband, Ursula her ward or Cliff a boy she lavis......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on April 30, 2020

I do believe Ngaio Marsh is fast becoming my favorite mystery novelist. We get a great set up. An obnoxious, annoying woman disappears. Three weeks later her body is found inside a bale of wool from her farm. Because this is 1942, someone at the farm thinks it might be related to espionage. Enter Ins......more

Goodreads review by Jazzy on January 26, 2021

Don't sit down to tea before starting this book! Actually this is my first experience with Ngaio Marsh and a very pleasant one indeed.......more

Goodreads review by Bev on January 10, 2019

Died in the Wool (1945) by Ngaio Marsh finds Inspector Alleyn still in New Zealand hunting spies in World War II. Alleyn had already been hard at work in the counter-espionage business in Marsh's previous novel, Colour Scheme. This time he's asked to investigate the death of a member of New Zealand'......more

Goodreads review by Craig on September 13, 2011

Died in the Wool is one of four Alleyn tales Marsh set in her native New Zealand, and is made even more interesting as it was actually published during the Second World War, and incorporates aspects, issues, and perspectives on the war climate into the murder mystery plotline. Being written before M......more