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Died in the Wool
 

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Mystery

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Inspector Roderick Alleyn
13

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1944-00-00  

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Blurb: 
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...

Auckland edition published in 1944; London and Boston editions published in 1945.
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