Ebook {Epub PDF} Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh

Photo Finish, the penultimate Inspector Alleyn mystery, is a home-coming of sorts, set in Ngaio Marsh's native New Zealand and the world of opera. As in her previous book, A Grave Mistake, Ngaio Marsh offers up a lady of a certain age, high-strung and hyperventilating, two ticks short of neurosis. A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country. 'He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities', reflected Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn on the international crook known as 'the Jampot'. Right at the end of her career, Marsh took her detective Alleyn back to her beloved New Zealand, scene of some of his earlier successes. It was almost forty years after her previous novel set outside Europe. Photo Finish also features a flamboyant, larger than life /5(94).

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh (, Book) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh--#;s last --" and best --" novels. The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphan. Ngaio Marsh. Photo Finish. The Sommita lay spread-eagled on her back across a red counterpane. The bosom of her red biblical dress had been torn down to the waist and under her left breast, irrelevantly, unbelievably, the haft of a knife stuck out. The right arm, rigid as a branch, was raised in the fascist salute. She might have been posed for the jacket on an all-too-predictable shocker.

Photo Finish (Roderick Alleyn Book 31) - Kindle edition by Marsh, Ngaio. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Photo Finish (Roderick Alleyn Book 31). Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh (, Book) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. Photo-finish by Ngaio Marsh. HarperCollins Publishers. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library.