Singing In The Shrouds

Ngaio Marsh

Aug 2010 · Inspector Alleyn Book 20 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Anton Lesser

About this audiobook

On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing. When the cargo ship, Cape Farewell, sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career...

Ratings and reviews

Marsh creates an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension, populated by interesting, complex characters. Narrator Anton Lesser is superb.

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s.