Colour scheme
About this book
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!
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 4016 readers · 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Challenging
What order should I read the Roderick Alleyn series?
Read Colour scheme first, then follow the publication order above — Death in a White Tie, then Death at the Bar, then Death and the Dancing Footman, then Opening night, then Clutch of constables.
How long does it take to read Colour scheme?
About ≈ 5 h 20 m — 288 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Colour scheme?
288 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Colour scheme?
It sits on the Mystery, Fiction shelves.
Is Colour scheme in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does Colour scheme take place?
It is set in Great Britain, New Zealand.
Who wrote Colour scheme?
Ngaio Marsh.
Roderick Alleyn — reading order
- → Colour scheme (1943) you are here
- 1 Death in a White Tie (1938)
- 2 Death at the Bar (1940)
- 3 Death and the Dancing Footman (1941)
- 4 Opening night (1951)
- 5 Clutch of constables (1968)