Alleyn and Others: The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh (Library of Crime Classics)

Here in one volume is the collected short fiction of Dame Ngaio Marsh. In addition to the "lost" cases of Rory Alleyn this book contains Marshs own account of the creation of her detective as well as four urbane crime tales with settings ranging from an elegant London restaurant to the outback of the authors native New Zealand. It concludes with a real find; a previously unpublished script written for the British television. The teleplay is a courtroom drama about a spinster charged with murdering a apoplectic major.