Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn #12)
Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
3.81
· 16 ratings · 304 pages · Published: 1943
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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