Language English Publication date 1941 Originally published 1941 Preceded by Death at the Bar Publisher Collins Crime Club | Series Roderick Alleyn Media type Print Genre Detective fiction | |
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Followed by Death and the Dancing Footman Similar Ngaio Marsh books, Roderick Alleyn Mysteries books, Detective fiction books | ||
Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The plot concerns the murder of a British peer, a theme to which Marsh would return; the novel was published as Death of a Peer in the United States.
Its title is a reference to the manner by which Henry I of England is said to have succumbed to food poisoning, as well as the surname of the first murder victim, and his family, who fall under suspicion.
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