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Died In The Wool - James Saxon, Ngaio Marsh
Died In The Wool
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One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, 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
One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, 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
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B015NBWFN0
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Edition language: English
Series: Roderick Alleyn (#13)
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Andrea K Höst
Andrea K Höst rated it
Another of the New Zealand Alleyns, this book is most definitely a character study, and takes the format of the key witnesses each giving their own version of events, and of the murdered person. This is not a version I particularly enjoy, but it's well done here and the story satisfying over all.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
I just didn't care very much, although I can see the comparison to Christie
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it
3.0 Died in the Wool
[These notes were made in 1985:]. In the best tradition of gruesome deaths, the hapless victim of this one, an elderly female, is bonked on the head and then smothered in the centre of a bale of wool. However, it is not simply the murder that brings Alleyn all the way out to New Zealand, but a susp...
Barbara1951
Barbara1951 rated it
This is one of those in which a lot of the book is people talking rather than acting. Still, quite decent.
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