Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
    Unavailable
    Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
    Unavailable
    Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
    Ebook276 pages4 hours

    Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    By Ngaio Marsh

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 7, 2010
    ISBN9780007344796
    Unavailable
    Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
    Author

    Ngaio Marsh

    Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.

    Read more from Ngaio Marsh

    Related to Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Galápagos Mermaid

      Apr 1, 2023

      The Galápagos Mermaid
      9 min read

    • Article

      Braving the STORM

      Aug 17, 2021

      Braving the STORM
      6 min read

    • Article

      Temptation

      Dec 28, 2021

      Temptation
      6 min read

    • Article

      Queen Of Salt

      Feb 6, 2020

      Queen Of Salt
      10 min read

    • Article

      What Lies beneath

      Sep 29, 2022

      What Lies beneath
      3 min read

    • Article

      Lurking Beneat

      Jul 13, 2023

      Lurking Beneat
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Selkie Moon

      Dec 3, 2020

      The Selkie Moon
      5 min read

    • Article

      A False Friend In The Blue Forest

      Jun 4, 2021

      I blink my eyes open and my gaze falls on dried palm fronds crisscrossing – not the white of my bedroom ceiling. For a minute, I am confused. Where am I? Then it comes back. I’m in my grandmother’s village in Bamboung, in the middle of nowhere. To ge

      7 min read

    • Article

      Beyond the Mangrove Trees

      Aug 6, 2020

      No one expects their house to float away. Ethel certainly hadn’t. Our story begins in the sleepy village of Greenwood, where Ethel had spent her entire life. It was an overcast Sunday afternoon and Ethel watched the rain lash against the window from

      7 min read

    • Article

      Jenny JUMPS IN

      Mar 13, 2024

      Jenny JUMPS IN
      3 min read

    • Article

      Left Behind

      Mar 1, 2019

      Left Behind
      6 min read

    • Article

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary

      Jun 17, 2020

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary
      7 min read

    • Article

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary

      Jun 17, 2020

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Visitors

      Mar 1, 2023

      The Visitors
      4 min read

    • Article

      Concerning The Future Of Souls

      Mar 19, 2024

      As a toddler she had caused a sensation in her family when she announced she wanted to live in a little hole like the ant. Not an ant, the ant. This might have been misheard. She was an easygoing child, not particularly thoughtful and stubbornly inar

      13 min read

    • Article

      SYLVAN & SEA

      Oct 2, 2019

      SYLVAN & SEA
      4 min read

    • Article

      The BEACHCOMBERS

      Jan 10, 2024

      The BEACHCOMBERS
      6 min read

    • Article

      A summer OUTING

      Jun 21, 2022

      A summer OUTING
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Change

      Aug 8, 2019

      The Change
      10 min read

    • Article

      Ripping Yarn

      Jan 10, 2024

      For 50 years, ever since I was a baby, I’ve been paddling and swimming by the glorious beaches of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. I smugly thought I knew those beaches - and the sea - like the back of my hand. Until, in summer 2022, I came the clo

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Sound Of Bongo

      Oct 2, 2019

      The Sound Of Bongo
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Alpaca EXPERIENCE

      May 25, 2021

      The Alpaca EXPERIENCE
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Swan

      Aug 27, 2021

      The Swan
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Needle

      May 30, 2023

      The Needle
      4 min read

    Reviews for Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    3.5/5

    100 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      I thought the setting, an English seaside village, cut off from the mainland at high tide, was more interesting than the mystery per se. We also get a glimpse into Inspector Alleyn personal life. Good read.
    • 4/5
      An entertaining mystery. I had the guy pegged, but still fun to read.
    • 4/5
      When local boy Wally Trehern's warts are suddenly cured, he explains that a lady in green appeared to him and told him that the village spring would wash them away. Then the general shop owner claims that her asthma has also been cured by the spring. The sleepy island village is soon a pilgrimage destination for those seeking cures from their ailments and the business owners and little church are making good money for the first time in their lives. But with the death of her sister, ownership of the entire island passes to Miss Emily Pride, a stubborn old woman who happens to be the former tutor of Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard. Her insistence that all the commercial exploitation of the spring and the desperate people who visit must stop makes her the enemy to the locals.Even though I'd seen this particular episode of "The Alleyn Mysteries", it didn't reduce my enjoyment of the book. Marsh is an excellent writer.