TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marsh, Ngaio,
TI  - Colour scheme
T2  - Roderick Alleyn 
SN  - 0002322145
AV  - PR9639.3.M27 C68 1988
PY  - 1988///, ©1943
CY  - London
PB  - Collins
KW  - Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Police
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, New Zealand
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
N2  - Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted -- if he wasn't a spy himself
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