Spinsters in Jeopardy [SEP] series
Spinsters in Jeopardy
Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1954. The novel takes place in the countryside of France, where Alleyn is vacationing with Agatha Troy, now his wife, and their son Ricky; it concerns an unusual and sinister plot which is perpetrated against travelling spinsters. 
The novel was published in the United States in 1953 (by Little Brown of Boston, her usual American publisher) and in 1955 in
, particularly of portraits, and features in many later novels either in person or in the letters Alleyn writes to her. According to one of a series of letters in "Overture to Death" (1939), their marriage was planned for April the following year. The actual event takes place “off stage,” as does the birth of their son, also named Roderick but generally called Ricky; Ricky plays major roles as a child in "Spinsters in Jeopardy" (1954) and as a young adult in "