A Roderick Alleyn Mystery

An English manor house on the moors, 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. Attending the festivities are a number of unusual characters, several of whom are perfectly logical candidates for murderer—and one of whom will elude the most prescient listener until tracked down by the indefatigable Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, whose wife Troy innocently involved him in all these sinister goings-on in the first place.