"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other
way around."New York magazine

It was a horrible deathMaurice 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, knows that any number of people could have killed him, the English exiles
hed hated, the New Zealanders hed despised or the Maoris hed insulted. Even
the spies hed thwartedif he wasnt a spy himself.

Ngaio Marsh, a native New Zealander whose name means "flowering tree" in Maori, was a detective story writer and theatrical producer. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her classic mysteries. The continuing popularity of her hero, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, has assured her a lasting place among the world's top mystery authors.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.