La Mort en embuscade

Novel, detective fiction by Ngaio Marsh

Blurb

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....

First Published

1942

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