Stella Duffy’s seamless completion of a typically confounding case for Ngaio (pronounced Nigh-oh) Marsh’s detective Roderick Alleyn is a remarkable homage to the Golden Age with a cast of quirky characters and a portrayal of New Zealand during wartime that the judges found fresh and unfamiliar in the field of historical crime.
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