Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn Series)

Troy Alleyn wasn't sure why she accepted the commission to paint the portrait of the well-known actor Sir Henry Ancred. She arrived at Ancreton Manor to find Sir Henry in poor health and suffering a series of merciless practical jokes from his grandchildren. Then death visits the manor, and the family in mourning constitutes a formidable assembly: the self-important Pauline, the egregious Cedric, acquisitive Sonia, and Milly who laughs perpetually at nothing. Troy is overwhelmingly relieved by the arrival of her husband, the redoubtable Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard…

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1899 and died in February 1982. She wrote over thirty detective novels.

Among James Saxon's numerous television roles were Pothinus in Cleopatra, Marcus Hammond MP in Metropolis, Dr Hatton in A Wing and a Prayer, Fuzzy Brighton in McCallum, and In the Red (as Oswald Twist). Among his films were Les Misérables, A Prayer for the Dying, and as Bertie in..

New York Magazine

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

From her first book in 1934 to her final volume just before her death in 1982, Ngaio Marsh's work has remained legendary, and is often compared to that of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers. During her celebrated fifty-year career, Marsh was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, was named Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, won numerous prestigious awards, and penned 32 mystery novels. So sit back, draw the curtains, lock the doors, and put yourself in the hands of the Grande Dame of detective novels...