Description
A first edition, first printing of Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh, published by Collins, Toronto in 1945. A very good copy free from inscriptions, some pushing to the heel of the spine, a single bump to the lower edge of front board, toning to the text block. In a similarly very good unclipped wrapper with chipping to the spine tips, chipping to the knuckles of front and rear flap folds, some bumping to the upper and lower edge of front panel, a closed tear to the upper knuckle of front flap fold and hinge of front panel, some toning to the rear panel and rear flap fold.
Died in the Wool is Ngaio Marsh’s thirteenth Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery. During wartime service in New Zealand, Alleyn investigates the murder of parliamentarian Flossie Rubrick, whose body was discovered packed inside a bale from her own sheep station. Arriving fifteen months after the crime, he reconstructs events through the conflicting accounts of her household. Combining a country-house puzzle with counter-espionage, Marsh creates an atmospheric New Zealand variation on Golden Age detection.
