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Light Thickens

Ngaio Marsh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:19th Aug '02

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The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.

But one night the claymore swings and the dummy’s head is more than real: murder behind the scene.

Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience…

‘Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection… a fine swansong.’
Observer

‘As always she writes most elegantly.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.’
Daily Telegraph

ISBN: 9780006512325

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 180g

256 pages