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Died in the Wool ~ Cl
  
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Died in the Wool ~ Cl (Hardcover)

de Ngaio Marsh (Author)
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This is a dyed-in-the-wool English detective story, only it's set in New Zealand during WWII. Nadia May reads the tale with a hoarse, raspy voice, which seems appropriate for a story set on the dusty plains of New Zealand. D.L.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient de la Audio Cassette édition.


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Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island -- and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels. One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech -- and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction -- packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead... --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining Mystery with an Unusual Structure, Avril 11 2002
Par Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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World War II finds Inspector Allen in New Zealand--and in DIED IN THE WOOL he is summoned to Mount Moon, a remote sheep ranch where a particularly grotesque murder may or may not be related to Axis espionage.

As always, Marsh gives her novel plenty of colorful characters and interesting atmosphere, and on this occasion she gives it something more as well: the novel is told largely via flashback as the various suspects and witnesses recall the victim's complexity--and how she disappeared only to be found some time later stitched up into a bale of wool. Although the flashback structure sometimes has a certain awkwardness, Marsh brings her story off in very fine style and in such a way that you'll never see the solution coming. Recommended.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 A gruesome tale of jealousy, espionage, murder and...wool?, Aoû 7 2000
I should probably read a bio on Ngaio Marsh, because I'm interested in knowing if she lived on a sheep farm when growing up in New Zealand - she seems to know an awful lot about wool! At any rate, this is another classic Marsh novel, though I do still miss Fox and co., as is the case with all the Inspector Alleyn novels set in New Zealand. Alleyn is performing War duty for the Special Services branch, when he responds to a call from a house where a Member of Parliament has been found murdered by being encased in a bale of wool on her own sheep farm. While there are household jealousies and inheritances, there is also a question of secret machinery plans being stolen and given to the enemy. As usual, the characters are finely drawn, and the plot superb (not to mention a bit bizarre!).
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Enthralled, Juil 28 2000
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Yet another enthralling mystery by Marsh... The characters are realistic even their flaws. Died In The Wool- is set in New Zealand during the onset of WWll. A zealous, outspoken,and very popular MP is found dead in a bail of her own wool. The question is the motive. Had she made enemies because of her shrewdness, or was she caught in the middle of international espionage? Inspector Alleyn is brought in. Thanks to emotional and often biased analysis of this formidable woman by her relatives and employees, Alleyn recreates the circumstances that forced her murder.
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