Colour Scheme

Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780006512387.

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealands 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 hed hated, the New Zealanders hed despised or the Maoris hed insulted. Even the spies hed thwarted -- if he wasnt a spy himself!