Singing In The Shrouds, Ngaio Marsh
Singing In The Shrouds, Ngaio Marsh
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Singing In The Shrouds

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Anton Lesser

Abridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/05/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing. When the cargo ship, Cape Farewell, sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career...

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 25, 2022

An easy read. Alleyn is on the Cape Farewell ship sailing to Capetown. One of the passengers is a murderer. Three women have been strangled in London the last one had clenched in her hand a torn piece of the embankment notice given to passengers. The ship is a freighter which also takes several pass......more

Goodreads review by Marisol on December 29, 2024

Siempre he pensado que Ngaio Marsh es la gemela malvada de Agatha Christie, comparten reglas muy definidas como el ambiente cerrado, número definido de sospechosos, pistas a la vista, pero Ngaio le avienta unas gotitas extras de maldad, situaciones fuera de lo políticamente correcto, una oscuridad n......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on March 16, 2019

I had my review erased accidentally. Wondering what key did that to me. I had just typed something of the mood Marsh successfully set to start us on this tightly plotted mystery. "In the pool of London and further east all through the dockyards the fog lay heavy. Lights swam like moons in their own......more

Goodreads review by Anastasia on February 02, 2017

Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh is the 20th Superintendent Roderick Alleyn mystery novel.The latest victim of the "flower murderer" is discovered clutching a piece of a torn embarkation notice for Cape Farewell and Superintendent Alleyn boards the ship to catch the killer. An interesting, enjo......more

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