Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels.When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mailer’s tour group seem strangely unperturbed.But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome incognito on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned…
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Ngaio Marsh. When in Rome
Table of Contents
Cast of Characters
CHAPTER 1 Barnaby in Rome
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CHAPTER 2 An Expedition is Arranged
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CHAPTER 3 Saturday, the Twenty-sixth
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CHAPTER 4 Absence of Mr Mailer
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CHAPTER 5 Evening Out
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CHAPTER 6 Re-appearance of a Postcard Vendor
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CHAPTER 7 Afternoon
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CHAPTER 8 Return of Sebastian Mailer
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CHAPTER 9 Death in the Morning
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CHAPTER 10 When in Rome
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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‘I’ll read it, of course,’ Barnaby said. ‘Have you brought it with you?’
Mr Mailer, it emerged, was sitting on it. By some adroit and nimble sleight-of-hand, he had passed it under his rump while Barnaby was intent upon his recovered property. He now drew it out, wrapped in a dampish Roman news-sheet and, with trembling fingers, uncovered it. A manuscript, closely written in an Italianate script, but not, Barnaby rejoiced to see, bulky. Perhaps forty thousand words, perhaps, with any luck, less.
