num_pages: 240
description: Apart from three of the shorter cases of Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn—introduced to us as a Detective-Inspector but inevitably being promoted (over his fifty-year career) to the rank of Detective-Chief-Superintendent—this collection includes an introduction to Marsh’s life and work by Douglas G. Greene; essays by Marsh describing the “births” of Alleyn and his wife Troy; four unrelated short stories; a teleplay for a British television series called ‘Crown Court’; and what may be Dame Ngaio’s first published work: the story ‘The Figure Quoted’, which was not discovered until after the first edition of this book was issued.Contents: Roderick Alleyn — Portrait of Troy — Death on the Air — I Can Find My Way Out — Chapter and Verse : The Little Copplestone Mystery Other Stories — The Hand in the Sand — The Cupid Mirror — A Fool About Money — Morepork — Evil Liver — The Figure Quoted Does not include Newly discovered: The figure quoted 
language: English
title: The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh
titlecomplete: The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh
characters: Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction
ratings_count: 258
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: Intl Polygonics Ltd