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The Ngaio Marsh BBC Radio Collection
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 19 December 2019
- Run Time
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
This collection would include the following works by Ngaio Marsh:
A Man Lay Dead - The gentleman detective tackles a country house party murder.
A Surfeit of Lampreys - Gentleman sleuth Inspector Alleyn probes a grisly death of the head of a spendthrift aristocratic family.
Opening Night - When a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. But it transpires he was so detested that everyone had a motive for his murder.
When In Rome - 1970s Rome. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn is incognito and on the trail of a vast drugs syndicate - and some exceptionally unsavoury blackmail. But he hasn't reckoned on murder.
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Details
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- Narrator
- Jeremy Clyde, Stephen Thorne, Full Cast
- Duration
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 December 2019
- ISBN
- 9781787537903
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. This collection would include the following works by Ngaio Marsh:A Man Lay Dead - The gentleman detective tackles a country house party murder. A Surfeit of Lampreys - Gentleman sleuth Inspector Alleyn probes a grisly death of the head of a spendthrift aristocratic family. Opening Night - When a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. But it transpires he was so detested that everyone had a motive for his murder. When In Rome - 1970s Rome. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn is incognito and on the trail of a vast drugs syndicate - and some exceptionally unsavoury blackmail. But he hasn't reckoned on murder.
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