When in Rome by Ngaio Marsh

When in Rome by Ngaio Marsh

Paperback.

Have not been read, but in a used 2nd hand condition.

Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director, one of the "Queens of Crime" alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham.

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"When in Rome" by Ngaio Marsh is a detective novel featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn, first published in 1970. The story revolves around a group of tourists visiting Rome, specifically its magnificent churches, who become entangled in a web of blackmail, drug-smuggling, and ultimately, murder within the depths of a Roman basilica. Inspector Alleyn must investigate the disappearance of their host and the subsequent discovery of a body in a sarcophagus to uncover the truth.