A tale of folklore and murder, set in the SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
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Location(s): North Island, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
Era(s): late 20th century
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!
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