Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn #2)
ISBN:
9780006512523 (0006512526)
Edition language: English
Series: Roderick Alleyn 1 (#2)
I've had Ngaio Marsh on my TBR pile for a few years now, and kept putting her off because the titles I have are all related to acting (Marsh herself being a former actress), and the stage and it's behind-the-scenes drama doesn't interest me much. Still, she's a Golden Age writer of note, and I was ...
Barely three; clearly an early one.
Uno dei lavori più significativi di Edith Ngaio Marsh, grande e conosciutissima scrittrice di detective story inglese, precedentemente pubblicato nella collana Giallo Mondadori, "Delitto a Teatro" è un romanzo veloce, intrigante e molto scorrevole che non potrà che affascinare tutti gli amanti dei r...
Unabridged and read by James Saxon . 6 hrs 7 mins duration. 6 CD's.[Book 2, 1935:]blurb - The theatrical stage is a common setting in Marsh's novels. In this story, read by James Saxon, the blustering actor Arthur Surbonardier is killed when a stage prop pistol--which he personally loaded with blank...
The second of the Alleyn mysteries, Enter a Murderer still finds the story's focus divided between Alleyn and the journalist Nigel Bathgate, and takes us firmly into the world Marsh clearly loves most -the stage. The mystery has an excellent and dramatic resolution, but the overall feeling is a 'do...