The Nursing Home Murder/Final Curtain: Ngaio Marsh

A double helping of murder and mystery. The Nursing Home Murder: Sir John Phillips, Harley Street surgeon and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good and very personal reasons for wishing him dead. Within hours he IS dead, although the operation was a complete success. Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why.

Final Curtain: Troy Alleyn, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's beautiful young wife, is engaged to paint a portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, famed Shakespearean actor and family patriarch, but she senses all is not well in the dreary castle of Ancreton. When old Henry is found dead after a suspicious dinner and an unfortunate family fracas, Troy enlists the expert aid of her husband to determine who among a cast of players would have a motive for murder - and the theatrical gift to carry it out.