Novel set in ITALY (1950s glamour and WW2 legacy)
Died in the Wool
Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Island
Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
Era(s): 1942
Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island – and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels.
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband’s wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears.
Three weeks later she turns up at an auction – packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead…
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