Spinsters in Jeopardy

Artists in Crime

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

In this thrilling yarn, the art of detection gets clouded by desire.

It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck—and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay a fatal dagger, and behind her murder lies all the intrigue and acid-etched temperament of an artist’s colony. Called in to investigate, Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick... Read more »

Overture to Death

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out, and Miss Campanula was dead.

Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among... Read more »

Colour Scheme

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near the decaying sulphur springs of Colonel and Mrs. Claire, the strange lights and signals being sent to foreign ships at sea indicate that there’s a spy in their midst.

Soon an even darker sign appears: a health-seeker with untoward intentions meets his demise in the boiling mud... Read more »

Final Curtain

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

Murder gets into the act in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel—and a Shakespearean actor takes his final bow.

Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not prepared for the acts of malice and mischief that would... Read more »

A Wreath for Rivera

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far?

When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and His Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy... Read more »

Spinsters in Jeopardy

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

En route to a family vacation on the French Riviera, Inspector Roderick Alleyn glimpses from the train a shocking tableau. In a moonlit window, a white-robed figure raises a knife to a woman’s shadow. Thus begins his incognito exploration of the Chateau of the Silver Goat, where a jet-set cult’s “Way of Life” could spell death for a maiden lady... Read more »

Death of a Fool

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo…

The village of South Mardian always observes the winter solstice with an ancient, mystical sword dance, complete with costumed performers. But for one of them, the excitement proves too heady, and his decapitation turns the fertility rite into a pageant of death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must... Read more »

Tied Up in Tinsel

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

An English manor house on the moors is an ideal setting for a murder—and for one of Ngaio Marsh’s classic murder mysteries.

The occasion is a Christmas party hosted by Mr. Hilary Bill-Tasman, landed proprietor of Halberds Manor and authority on antiques. Santa Claus is in attendance, played by a highly unpopular servant. When he goes missing... Read more »

Black as He’s Painted

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

When the president of Ng’ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old school mate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to try to persuade him otherwise.

Alleyn performs his mission so successfully that on the night of the Ng’ombwanan embassy’s reception, the house and grounds are... Read more »

Last Ditch

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. And when Ricky himself disappears, the case... Read more »

Death on the Air, and Other Stories

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A disguised aristocrat finds murder at the opening night of a play. A cryptogram produces death in an English churchyard. These are just a few of the situations that confront Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn who, with his lovely wife Agatha Troy, charmed his way through more than thirty... Read more »