Off With His Head Author Forename:Ngaio

Off With His Head Author Forename:NgaioPagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh's most fascinating murder mysteries.

But the more she investigates

the death of Victim 2117 was the first step in a terrorist plot

Jimmy is forced to play a deadly game of hide and seek in the city's darkest corners

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973

he's surprised to find the victim is a woman with nothing to hide and no reason for anyone to hurt her

Or it was - until last night

can anyone catch this clever murderer

Somers is dead too

a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church

and soon he begins a scheme of revenge

They Can't Hang Me was adapted for the screen as The Witness Vanishes (1939)

and everyone will be forced to a reckoning with each other