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Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted -- if he wasn't a spy himself!

subjects: Mystery,  Police,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character),  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  New zealand, fiction,  Modern Literature

Places: Great Britain,  New Zealand