Colour Scheme

Colour Scheme
Ngaio Marsh

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.It was a horrible death – Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die.Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he’d hated, the New Zealanders he’d despised or the Maoris he’d insulted. Even the spies he’d thwarted – if he wasn’t a spy himself…

NGAIO MARSH

COLOUR SCHEME

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First published in Great Britain by Collins 1943

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To the family at Tauranga

CONTENTS

Cover (#u1ae9de51-6a42-5354-96e0-701bd38b5475)

Title Page (#ue27705da-098a-5ee9-b072-44a48e5189bf)

Copyright (#u0694c531-2393-55ca-a4b9-127684a84227)

Dedication (#u960679b2-00d8-57df-a211-cc583f526b7e)

Cast of Characters (#u2e1b120a-8af4-55fd-ac1a-4f1a7963a761)

1 The Claires and Dr Ackrington (#u4ecc8c25-dcd9-59df-bb87-15aa30bb3a14)

2 Mr Questing Goes Down for the First Time (#ue54ca098-c6bc-5a8e-b581-ccd1f5bd33c4)

3 Gaunt at the Springs (#uaae59afb-c62c-527a-9c4e-78ce21aaf0ba)

4 Red for Danger (#u61ed2e9e-db40-5521-866f-7b5855a23b8c)

5 Mr Questing Goes Down for the Second Time (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Arrival of Septimus Falls (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Torpedo (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Concert (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Mr Questing Goes Down for the Third Time (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Entrance of Sergeant Webley (#litres_trial_promo)

11 The Theory of a Put-Up Job (#litres_trial_promo)

12 Skull (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Letter from Mr Questing (#litres_trial_promo)

14 Solo by Septimus Falls (#litres_trial_promo)

15 The Last of Septimus Falls (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CAST OF CHARACTERS (#ulink_fab5c486-6631-5656-8bd2-18ab4192f962)

Dr James Ackrington, MD, FRCS, FRCP

Barbara Claire, his niece

Mrs Claire, his sister

Colonel Edward Claire, his brother-in-law

Simon Claire, his nephew

Huia, maid at Wai-ata-tapu

Geoffrey Gaunt, a visiting celebrity