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Died in the wool ; Final curtain ; Swing, brother, swing ; and, I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Marsh, Ngaio, Roderick Alleyn ; books 13, 14, 15.Publication details: London : Harper, 2009.Edition: Omnibus edDescription: 761 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780007328734
  • 0007328737
Contained works:
  • Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982, Died in the wool [author.]
  • Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982, Final curtain [author.]
  • Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982, Swing, brother, swing [author.]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
Contents:
Died in the wool - Final curtain -- Swing, brother, swing -- I can find my way out.
Summary: Died in the wool: One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction. Packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very dead.Summary: Final curtain: Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist-wife of the Inspector, becomes the star witness the murder investigation of the famed Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred.Summary: Swing, brother, swing: The music rose to a climax, Lord Pastern aimed his revolver and fired. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe the eccentric peer had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far?
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Died in the wool originally published: London: Collins, 1945. Final curtain originally published: London: Collins, 1947. Swing, brother, swing originally published: London: Collins, 1949. I can find my way out originally published in Death on the air and other stories: London : HarperCollins, 1995.

Died in the wool - Final curtain -- Swing, brother, swing -- I can find my way out.

Died in the wool: One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction. Packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very dead.

Final curtain: Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist-wife of the Inspector, becomes the star witness the murder investigation of the famed Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred.

Swing, brother, swing: The music rose to a climax, Lord Pastern aimed his revolver and fired. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe the eccentric peer had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far?

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