Colour scheme

About this book

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!

1. Death and the Dancing Footman 1942
2. Colour Scheme 1943 This book
3. Died in the Wool 1945
4. Final Curtain 1947

Subjects

• alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction
• england, fiction
• fiction
• fiction in english
• fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
• modern literature
• mystery
• new zealand, fiction
• open library staff picks
• police
• roderick alleyn (fictitious character)