A review by michael5000
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh

3.0

Serial fiction written during The War is often more interesting as social document than as fiction. This episode of Marsh's series has a few things going for it, though. It's always kind of fun when she gets to actually bring her show to New Zealand, and the intense remoteness of the sheep-station setting helps her keep tight control over a short list of suspects. Plus, this is a novel with a very lively corpse -- she's dead for the bulk of the book, but the late departed is a real larger-than-life personality. The dismount feels a bit arbitrary, though, and of course one misses Foxkins.