Artists in Crime. Ngaio Marsh
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Название: Artists in Crime

Автор: Ngaio Marsh

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

Серия: The Ngaio Marsh Collection

isbn: 9780007344444

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       Ngaio Marsh

      Artists in Crime

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009

      Artists in Crime first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1938

      Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1938

      Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

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       For Phyllis and John

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       The Characters in the Tale

       CHAPTER 5 Routine

       CHAPTER 6 Sidelight on Sonia

       CHAPTER 7 Alibi for Troy

       CHAPTER 8 Sidelights on Garcia

       CHAPTER 9 Phillida Lee and Watt Hatchett

       CHAPTER 10 Weekend of an Engaged Couple

       CHAPTER 11 Ormerin’s Nerves and Sonia’s Correspondence

       CHAPTER 12 Malmsley on Pleasure

       CHAPTER 13 Upstairs

       CHAPTER 14 Evidence from a Twig

       CHAPTER 15 Lady of the Ensemble

       CHAPTER 16 Back to the Yard

       CHAPTER 17 The Man at the Table

       CHAPTER 18 One of Five

       CHAPTER 19 Alleyn Makes a Pilgrimage

       CHAPTER 20 Arrest

       CHAPTER 21 Epilogue in a Garden

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       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER 1 Prologue at Sea

      Alleyn leant over the deck-rail, looking at the wet brown wharf and the upturned faces of the people. In a minute or two now they would slide away, lose significance, and become a vague memory. ‘We called at Suva.’ He had a sudden desire to run a mental ring round the scene beneath him, to isolate it, and make it clear, for ever in his mind. Idly at first, and then with absurd concentration, he began to memorize, starting with a detail. The tall Fijian with dyed hair. The hair was vivid magenta against the arsenic green of a pile of fresh bananas. He trapped and held the pattern of it. Then the brown face beneath, with liquid blue half-tones reflected СКАЧАТЬ