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  • Died in the Wool

  • By: Ngaio Marsh
  • Narrated by: James Saxon
  • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Died in the Wool

By: Ngaio Marsh
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Publisher's Summary

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....

©1945 Original Text of 1945 by Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio
War & Military Cosy Traditional Detectives Crime Thrillers Military Suspense
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Critic Reviews

"The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers." ( Times Literary Supplement)
"In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature." ( New York Times)
"Ngaio Marsh is one of the detective novelists whose books I regularly re-read, always the test of a good detective story." (P. D. James)
"In the front rank of crime-story writers." ( The Times)

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excellent Ngio Marsh

great story, well told but some things have not traveled well through time so be aware of out dated comments and ideas

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Perfect James Saxon Reads Perfect Nagaio Marsh

Love this book, love this particular reader. James Saxon died now many years ago, so let him rest in piece and thank God for both him and dearest darling Nagaio Marsh

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Please no more James Saxon

I love Ngaio Marsh's writing, but I have found listening to them really hard, especially any book narrated by James Saxon! I have tried, but I can't listen to anything he narrates, and will be skipping any book in a series narrated by him in the future. Very disappointed, as I like listening to crime novelists books in order.

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