Died in the Wool

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

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

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

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

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