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A Man Lay Dead
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....
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excellent as always
- By Michelle C on 05-04-17
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A Man Lay Dead
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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The Ngaio Marsh BBC Radio Collection
- Four Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Stephen Thorne, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Includes 'A Man Lay Dead', 'A Surfeit of Lampreys', 'Opening Night' and 'When in Rome'.
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A GREAT COLLECTION
- By Highlight on 15-01-20
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The Ngaio Marsh BBC Radio Collection
- Four Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Stephen Thorne, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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Overture to Death
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.
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Charming period piece
- By MS P WILSON on 01-07-16
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Overture to Death
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 8
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Death at the Bar
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences. At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in the taproom. They are in the habit of playing darts, but on this occasion an experiment takes the place of the usual game - a fatal experiment which calls for investigation.
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Another great Marsh story.
- By iiiio on 30-10-19
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Death at the Bar
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 9
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Hand in Glove
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr. Cartell, who had ended up in the ditch - forever. Then there was the case of Mr. Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn.
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Super narrator
- By Joanne F. on 16-04-16
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Hand in Glove
- Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 22
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Enter a Murderer
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when a prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases.
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A great mystery
- By Keithj on 17-02-16
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Enter a Murderer
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Surfeit of Lampreys
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander’s first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye.... The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar - and rather gloried in it. The double and triple charades, for instance, with which they would entertain their guests - like rich but awful Uncle Gabriel, who was always such a bore.
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Marsh joy
- By Jean the Bean on 11-12-16
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Surfeit of Lampreys
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 10
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Death in Ecstasy
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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The poison was cyanide, slipped into the sacred wine of ecstasy just before it was presented to Miss Cara Quayne at the House of the Sacred Flame. The victim was a deeply religious initiate who had trained for a month for her last ceremony. She was also a very beautiful woman.... The suspects were the other initiates and the high priest. All claimed they were above earthly passions. But Cara Quayne had provoked lust, jealousy - and murder.
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Good plot ruined by an awful narrator
- By Gen S on 08-07-20
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Death in Ecstasy
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-11-15
- Language: English
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When in Rome
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Murder, blackmail and drug dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels. When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman basilica, the members of Mr. Sebastian Mailer’s tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome incognito on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned.
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superbly read and beautiful written , I loved this
- By Helen Garlick on 18-04-19
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When in Rome
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 26
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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False Scent
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen. Little did beloved British actress Mary Bellamy know that she would be done in at her own birthday party - choked by toxic mist from the bottle of Slaypest, a deadly insecticide. Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans - who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies - Mary would make her final performance.
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Oooh Ducky!!! Luvies abound!
- By My Idoru on 30-01-16
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False Scent
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 21
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Died in the Wool
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island - and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels. One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband’s wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears.
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Ruined by the narration
- By LH, England on 01-04-18
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Died in the Wool
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 13
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Grave Mistake
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Jane Asher
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday.... A bit snobbish and a trifle high strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director...and an apparent suicide. Her autopsy holds one surprise, a secret drawer a second.
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Good story
- By T Dinn on 26-01-18
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Grave Mistake
- Narrated by: Jane Asher
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 30
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Death and the Dancing Footman
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers. It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre. They would be the characters in a drama that he would devise. It ended in snowbound disaster. Everyone had an alibi - and most had motives as well. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, when he finally arrived, knew it all hung on Thomas, the dancing footman....
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Not much Alleyn in it.
- By Keithj on 26-06-16
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Death and the Dancing Footman
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 11
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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The Nursing Home Murder
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why....
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Typical yarn
- By Teresa on 25-07-16
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The Nursing Home Murder
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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Clutch of Constables
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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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'.
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Great!
- By Seagull on 15-10-20
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Clutch of Constables
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 25
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Dead Water
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The elderly Emily Pride is perfectly pleased to have inherited an island, even if her starchy pragmatism is ever so faintly appalled by the Pixie Falls spring and its reported miraculous healing properties. But really, the locals' attempts to capitalize on the 'miracles' are entirely too tacky - Ye Olde Gift Shoppe, the neon signs…not on Miss Emily’s watch, thank you.
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Dead Water
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 23
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Vintage Murder
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels. New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up on stage after the performance. But something went horribly wrong. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn witnessed it himself.
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I couldn't finish this book
- By Enrique Bonifacino on 27-08-17
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Vintage Murder
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 5
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Final Curtain
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A country house murder, artistic insight and the postwar reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel. Agatha Troy, world-famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.
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Reader thinks it a pantomime.
- By EGR on 02-02-16
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Final Curtain
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 14
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Death in a White Tie
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh’s 1930s novels. The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend, Lord Robert Gospell, at the scene. But someone else got there first....
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Terrible recording
- By Arthur on 15-12-15
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Death in a White Tie
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 7
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Scales of Justice
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish.
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Cumberbatch is excellent
- By marisa on 23-04-14
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Scales of Justice
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-11-08
- Language: English
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