Buy this book on-line "Marsh, Ngaio" : Clutch of Constables"London: The Crime Club, 1968"
1st edition. Orange cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust-jacket with the red ink panel on the spine faded as usual. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of "Marsh, Ngaio" : Clutch of Constables. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. MARSH**, NGAIO: : Clutch of ConstablesLONDON.COLLINS,ST. JAMES'S PLACE.1968. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn per se,but previous owner's small rectangular b/w lettered name+address adhesive label to top,right-hand corner of front free endpaper and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,3-colour (white background with blocks of red+blue) design artwork illustrated dw/dj with white and black lettering respectively to front panel of dw/dj.colour scheme+lettering repeated to spine.backstrip - the red block with light,minimal and partial sunning to same,a bright,crisp,clean white background with red lettering and other black lettered critics' reviews to rear panel respectively; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore -edges whilst bright are with minimal, light and sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine,possibly unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original, plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean repeated towns' b/w map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,9-253pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with story precis and publisher's advert for author's other titles to its verso, title page,contents list/table with a dedication to verso,Cast of characters with a blank verso,and to the rear,2pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
Ngaio Marsh's twenty-fifth (of 33) novel to feature Roderick Alleyn.Policeman hero of Chief Inspector (later Chief Superintendent - as in this novel) of the C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), Scotland Yard,Metropolitan Police (London).
The plot concerns art forgery,and takes place on a cruise on a fictional river in the Norfolk Broads; the "Constable" referred to in the title is John Constable (b.11 June 1776 – d. 31 March 1837) an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.Born in Suffolk,he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting.It is this Constable,whose works are mentioned by several characters in this novel.
Structured around a training course Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard,is giving to trainee police detectives,with specific reference to his successful identification and capture of the international fraudster, crook and killer 'The Jampot' also known as Foljambe.Meanwhile,Alleyn's celebrity painter wife Agatha Troy has just successfully launched her latest exhibition and,on a whim,takes a canal cruise on the MV Zodiac through 'Constable' country of East Anglia.Her fellow passengers are the usual assorted bunch of suspects,when the inevitable murder takes place of Hazel Rickerby-Carrick,a needy, tiresome spinster whose diary is her "self-propelling journal" and who indiscreetly boasts of carrying around her neck a fabulous Fabergé,jewelled zodiac ornament,which goes missing.The passengers include: a literary lepidopterist clearly much smitten by Troy, a pair of gushing American tourists in search of antiques,a sporting Australian clergyman,a London slum landlord with a talent for fine graphics and a grandly exotic and distinguished surgeon of Afro-European origin,to whom Troy is greatly attracted,and who is the subject of overt racism from several of the passengers.
New Zealand-born author,considered along with Agatha Christie,Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers,one of the four Queens of Crime,during the 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction'.
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