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 The Nursing Home Murder - Ngaio Marsh
 The Nursing Home Murder - Ngaio Marsh ... most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time. Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary -- and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why...Newest Review: ... Derek suddenly dies. Sir Derek’s wife is convinced that her husband’s death is murder. She suspects the surgeon or the ... more ... ex-lover, but it could have been anyone that was with him before or during the operation and that includes his sister, his wife herself and a Communist nurse who openly hates Sir Derek’s politics. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to find out the truth once it has been proved that Sir Derek was poisoned.
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As a fictional detective, Alleyn is not one of my favourites. I find him a little too dry and upper class to be able to sympathise with him and I much prefer the later Alleyn, once he...more |
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The Nursing Home Murder - Ngaio Marsh: Death of the Home Secretary (no, not the real one) (727 words)
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Dubbed one of the Queens of Crime, up there with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh’s work continues to be re-printed time and time again, although sales are not quite up there with Agatha Christie’s. This is apparently one of her most popular novels and although not one of my favourites, it is still an entertaining read. Like most of her novels, this one involves the upper echelons of society, including the Home Secretary himself! The plot The Home Secretary, Sir Derek O’Callaghan, is about to put an important bill to the House of Commons when he is suddenly struck violently ill with peritonitis. By a strange quirk of fate (!), the surgeon ... Read the complete review
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