Title: Colour scheme
Description: 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