Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy. Mr Glossop is on his regular run delivering wages to the hospitals scattered across New Zealand's Canterbury plains. When his car breaks down, he is forced to stay the night at Mount Seager Hospital, twenty miles from the nearest town, where soldiers recovering from scarlet fever are giving the nursing staff a hard time. When Mr Glossop's payroll disappears from a locked safe and the hospital's death toll starts to rise faster than normal, can the appearance of an English detective working in counterespionage be just a lucky coincidence or an indication that something more sinister is afoot? Renowned with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham as one of the four Golden Age `Crime Queens', Ngaio Marsh published 32 novels featuring Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn between 1934 and her death in 1982. In 1945 she put aside a new book, Money in the Morgue, after writing just the opening chapters. Stella Duffy's masterful completion of this unfinished novel celebrates both the style and substance of Dame Ngaio's accomplished storytelling and will delight both fans of the Alleyn Mysteries and new readers who through this book are about to discover them for the first time...

Money in the Morgue

NGAIO MARSH

Stella, Duffy

Collins Crime Club

"Tart Noir" writers make their own rules. Part Philip Marlowe, part femme fatale, their heroines think it is entirely possible to save the world while wearing stiletto heels. Their morals are questionable and their actions are guaranteed to shock and delight. From classic crime to magical anti-realism, hot sex to cold calculation, these stories cover all the bases. There are well loved series characters together with brand new ones, just panting for half a dozen books of their own. Stories long and short, knowing laughs and nasty glances. Some are light as air, others are downright transgressive. All are an experience you are unlikely to forget.

Tart Noir : An Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Pan/Macmillan

Tart Noir (TPB)

A princess, perfect in every way except one, arrives in London from a land of milk and honey, and sets up home in a Notting Hill tower block. Her self-appointed mission - to break up couples in love. For what she lacks is a heart.With gleeful dedication, she sets about seducing a husband-to-be, prizing apart two devoted gay men, and ensnaring a contentedly married woman. But things start to go wrong: despite herself she becomes fond of one of her lovers, and discovers a tiny heart growing in her chest. The Queen and King, meanwhile, have despatched her brother to stop her. Will he be a match for her Her magic is stronger, but then he does have a heart of his own ...

Singling Out the Couples

Contemporary

Sceptre

Lisa has a loving husband, a lovely home and a successful career, but decides she needs more excitement. So she embarks on a passionate affair with her best friend's boyfriend, and finds fresh gratification in the arms of a woman. But then Lisa is burnt by the fire she thought she was playing with.

Eating Cake

August 1912: three boys from the slums of Walworth set out on a sailing trip down the Thames. The events that unfold in this novel of a vanished working-class London will change their lives for ever.

London Lies Beneath

Virago

Lullaby Beach: 'Faultless storytelling' Observer

A princess, perfect in every way except one, arrives in London from a land of milk and honey, and sets up home in a Notting Hill tower block.  Her self-appointed mission - to break up couples in love.  For what she lacks is a heart. With gleeful dedication, she sets about seducing a husband-to-be, prizing apart two devoted gay men, and ensnaring a contentedly married woman. But things start to go wrong: despite herself she becomes fond of one of her lovers, and discovers a tiny heart growing in her chest.  The Queen and King, meanwhile, have despatched her brother to stop her.  Will he be a match for her?  Her magic is stronger, but then he does have a heart of his own ...

Singling Out The Couples

Reference

An Orange Prize-winning Author Jack and Cindy were instantly attracted to each other, and in time that first infatuation developed into a passionate and enduring love affair. A celebrated cartographer, Cindy maps the contours of their developing relationship. Five years later, Cindy falls dangerously ill. As she battles her body's betrayal, the couple must also confront their diverging paths and uncharted future.  Available only in Wheeler Hardcover 6.

State of Happiness

Romance

Wheeler Publishing

Parallel Lies

Celebrity, identity and sexuality - the three poles of our fame-obsessed society, each one a magnet for secrets and lies. Despite her youth, Russian-born Yana Ivanova is already a Hollywood legend. She lives in a beautiful house in Beverly Hills with Jimmy, a sitcom star, and Penny, her British PA. Theirs is a strange and uneasy partnership, held together by sex, secrets and the fear of scandal. Then Yana starts receiving threatening letters from an anonymous but very knowledgeable source. Suspicion turns to fear, and fear leads to murder. But who exactly is conning whom? Stella Duffy has written crime novels and dark romantic comedies. Here she combines the two in a smart, sexy, suspenseful new novel. Poison pen letters, fake identities, misplaced affection, betrayal and murder...Still think a menage a trois sounds fun?

Time Warner Books Uk

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