*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Dame Ngaio Marsh has been considered one of the four ‘Queens Of Crime’ of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham – although we would put a case for Gladys Mitchell to also be included in their number…) Anyway, it’s the New Zealand author that we’re paying attention to this week as we add nine of her Inspector Alleyn mysteries to our shelves. Clever and stylish whodunnits, often with a theatrical edge (Marsh was a theatre director as well as an author). Titles such as Artists In Crime, Spinsters In Jeopardy, Final Curtain & Vintage Murder are included in this update and two are illustrated here.