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Ngaio Marsh's novel of intrigue and murder at a faith healing resort. Starring Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
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Dead Water
Dead Water
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Outside back dust cover: Ngaio Marsh. With each novel, Ngaio Marsh wins new readers with her three-dimensional depition of people and places--and holds her old ones with a faultless whodunit-puzzle. Anthony Boucher Miss Marsh writes with wit and charm and has a ready faculty for making her characters credibly human. August Derleth
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Outside back dust cover: Ngaio Marsh. With each novel, Ngaio Marsh wins new readers with her three-dimensional depition of people and places--and holds her old ones with a faultless whodunit-puzzle. Anthony Boucher Miss Marsh writes with wit and charm and has a ready faculty for making her characters credibly human. August Derleth
ISBN: 270923
Publication Date: 1963
Pages: 244
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Publication Date: 1963
Pages: 244
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Publisher: Little Brown & CO.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Book Type: Hardcover
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A puzzle mystery with satisfying twists and turns. Interesting commentary on the commercialization of spirituality; a fun plot.
Even though I vaguely remembered some of the story from the PBS movie, I still was anxious to read this book. It is a great read. The characters are very full, many with motive to have done the deed. The small island and its inhabitants, a spring rumored to have healing power, and the prosperity brought to the island by others searching for cures for what ails them... all are part of Inspector Alleyn's puzzle.Inspector Alleyn is also uncharacteristically involved in an action-packed pursuit of a suspect and is injured. I enjoyed it very much!
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