Les enquêtes de Roderick Alleyn Séries
Cette série policière suit le brillant mais gentleman Inspecteur Roderick Alleyn alors qu'il démêle des mystères de meurtre complexes. Chaque affaire est méticuleusement conçue, mettant l'accent sur la psychologie des personnages et la déduction élégante. Les lecteurs se retrouveront captivés par des intrigues pleines de suspense se déroulant dans de charmants décors anglais. Elle offre la satisfaction classique des 'whodunits' pour les amateurs du genre.
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The crime was committed on stage at the theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent; the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases
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Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time.
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A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh's most ambitious and innovative novels.
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Artists in Crime
- 310pages
- 11 heures de lecture
When murder upsets the creative tranquility of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. And what begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn's career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects-the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection.
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Debutantes 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.
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Overture to Death
- 248pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her own excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realizes that the murderer might have killed the wrong woman -- and may soon stage a repeat performance.
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It's true, darts is nobody's idea of a low-risk amusement, yet it is rarely lethal. Tell that to the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the Plume of Feathers pub, and is now residing at the morgue. Inspector Roderick Alleyn has a growing hunch that the peculiar "accident" can be traced to an old legal case.
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A Surfeit of Lampreys
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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...
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Klasický detektivní román se odehrává během 2. světové války na Novém Zélandu, kam přijíždí anglický policejní inspektor spolupracovat na případu špionáže. Vrchní inspektor Alleyn přijíždí v roce 1943 na Nový Zéland, aby odhalil pachatele záhadné a brutální vraždy manželky majitele ovčí farmy a zároveň pomohl místní policii v pátrání po špionáži. Obou úkolů se jako obvykle zhostí s úspěchem a nakonec jen taktak unikne vražednému útoku na svou osobu. Vedle zdařilé zápletky vyniká tento detektivní román mistrným prokreslením charakterů, zachycením života na Novém Zélandu za 2. světové války a překrásnými popisy novozélandské horské přírody.
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"Lord Pastern and Baggot (yes, that's one person) is a classic English eccentric, given to passionate, peculiar enthusiasms. His latest? Drumming in a jazz band. His rather stuffy wife is not amused, and even less so when her daughter falls hard for Carlos Rivera, the band's sleazy piano accordionist. Aside from the young woman, nobody likes Rivera very much, so there's a wealth of suspects when he is shot in the middle of a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in the audience, ready solve the murder, soothe Lord P & B, and generally get everyone back on beat. Who knew he was such a jazzbo?"--Back cover.
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Spinsters in Jeopardy
- 255pages
- 9 heures de lecture
For Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the trip was to be official; for his family, a Mediterranean romp. But a plot torn from the pages of a gothic novel soon engulfed them all. Alleyn's son was kidnapped. A very wealthy spinster was murdered. And in an eerie chateau, carved out of the Riviera mountainside, Alleyn faced the ultimate jet-set cult.
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Im idyllischen englischen Dorf Swevenings geschieht ein Mord an Colonel Cartarette, einem begeisterten Angler. Inspektor Roderick Alleyn von Scotland Yard untersucht den Fall, wobei eine prächtige Forelle die einzige Spur zum Täter darstellt.
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Off with His Head
- 255pages
- 9 heures de lecture
“I didn’t reckon to be flustered “, said Carey, “but this flustered me, proper. Partly, no doubt, it was the way the Guiser was got up. Like a clown with the tunic thing pulled up. It’d have been over his head if—well, never mind. He didn’t paint his face but he had one of these masks. So he looked, if you can follow me, gentlemen, like a kind of doll that the head had come off of. There was the body, sort of doubled up, and there was the head, two feet away, grinning, which was right nasty...”
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Mary Bellamy, ageing darling of the London stage, holds a 50th-birthday party - a gala where she has assembled everyone who loves her and fears her power. Then someone uses a deadly insect spray on Mary instead of the azaleas. Superintendent Alleyn investigates.
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Invitation to Murder… Lady Bantling had a talent for outrageous parties, but she never dreamed her mad treasure hunt would end in murder—with a famous lawyer dead in a drain excavation, his skull bashed in by a pipe… Who had planned this horrendous happening? Superintendent Alleyn probes the alibis of some elegant aristocrats—for the hidden clue to a particularly deadly guest. (Publisher’s description)
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Děj detektivního příběhu Ngaio Marshové se tentokrát odehrává na malém cornwallském ostrůvku v Lamanšském průlivu, kde pomůže ponoření do pramene vody malému prostoduchému chlapci, jenž má plné ruce bradavic. Celá vesnice založí na údajně léčivém prameni svou prosperitu, ale šarlatánství s tím spojené se nelíbí staré slečně Prideové, jež ostrov zdědila a chce vše vrátit do starých kolejí.Po svém příjezdu se však stává terčem nebezpečných útoků a nakonec dochází k záměně osob a k surové vraždě, kterou za přispění místní policie opět vyřeší schopný a elegantní superintendant ze Scotland Yardu Roderick Alleyn, bývalý žák a starý přítel slečny Prideové.
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The discovery of a piece of authentic Shakespearean memorabilia leads to a murder at the recently reopened Dolphin theater and Inspector Alleyn investigates
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10 18 grands détectives: Croisière mortelle
- 253pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Five Days Out of Time … that was how the ad had described the Zodiac cruise on the “weirdly misted” English river. The passengers were the usual, unusual lot: a couple of unpleasantly hygienic Americans, an aloof Ethiopian doctor, a snooping cleric with a wall-eye, an artist running away from her success… But they were not all what they seemed. For Inspector Alleyn knew that one of them was the faceless “Jampot”—the ruthless killer who could take on any personality, whose thumb was a deadly weapon. The problem was, which one ? Alleyn had five days to trap him, or the other passengers would pay with their lives—and one of those passengers was Alleyn’s wife!
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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
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Tied Up in Tinsel
- 292pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Ngaio Marsh's classic Christmas murder mystery in a special 50th anniversary edition.
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The charismatic president of Ng'ombwana in Africa has enemies of every stripe--from ex-colonists to new rivals, from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at the president's lavish embassy party in London, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose the assassin.
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Last Ditch
- 221pages
- 8 heures de lecture
The last ditch hidden behind a hedge, is a sheer drop, murderously deep—especially when someone stretches a wire across to trip a horse. The last to jump is a young stablehand, who is duly crushed beneath several stone of well-groomed mare. The last straw for Roderick Alleyn is when his young son Ricky becomes involved—right up to his considerably endangered neck...
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Další z případů vrchního inspektora Alleyna ze Scotland Yardu se tentokrát odehrává mezi společenskou smetánkou v malé vesnici v Kentu, kde dojde k několika záhadným vraždám a ke krádeži známky nesmírné ceny. Alleyn se svými spolupracovníky překoná všechny překážky a složitý případ vyřeší s bravurou sobě vlastní. Příběh je napsán v nejlepších tradicích anglické detektivky a kromě napětí mu neschází ani humor.
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Photo Finish
- 264pages
- 10 heures de lecture
The murder of a famous opera soprano finds Inspector Alleyn crawling around backstage in her life, interviewing agents, past lovers, servants, and others hoping to learn who dispatched La Sommita with her own stiletto.
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The owner of the Dolphin Theatre is putting on a production of Macbeth, the play that always brings bad luck. One night, the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real. Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience.
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Money in the Morgue
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.
Died in the Wool / Final Curtain / Swing, Brother, Swing
- 768pages
- 27 heures de lecture
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fifth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued in B-format. Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and now, driven by sheer necessity, she was glad to accept the humble job of dresser to its leading lady. And then came the eagerly awaited Opening Night. To Martyn the night brought a strange turn of the wheel of fortune - but to one distinguished member of the cast it was to bring sudden and unforeseen death...
Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar
- 848pages
- 30 heures de lecture
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Vintage Murder / Death in Ecstasy / Artists in Crime
- 752pages
- 27 heures de lecture
Celebrating 75 years since the debut of the Empress of Crime, this second volume of omnibus editions compiles the complete series of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Fans of detective fiction will appreciate the collection's depth, showcasing the evolution of the beloved character and the intricate plots that have captivated readers over decades.
Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "The Cupid mirror".
