by Ngaio Marsh
Since I was reading a biography of Ngaio Marsh, I decided to pick up a couple of her mysteries from the library to remind myself of their flavour. This one is only the third in the series, so Roderick Alleyn is still without a romantic partner, and still decidedly a smart-aleck. The title of this ...
Because this one involves the murder of the Home Secretary, which is apparently a cabinet level position in the British Government (it seems to correspond loosely to a combination of the Secretary of State and the Head of Homeland Security, near as wikipedia can help me to figure out), it is one of ...
bookshelves: published-1935, mystery-thriller, autumn-2010 Read from September 13 to 14, 2010 workaday mp3Unabridged and read by James Saxon . 6 hrs 31 mins duration. 6 CD's[Book 3, 1935:]blurb - Ngaio Marsh's best selling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crim...
The best aspect of these books is Alleyn's interactions with Fox and with Bathgate.I have remembered the denouement of this mystery for YEARS...but never could remember what book it was in. Now I know. :-)
Another of the earliest of the Alleyn mysteries, this is again marred by foolish side-roads into Communist conspiracies and the adventures of Nigel Bathgate. Alleyn is a little more 'Alleyn' in this novel, rather than an unsteady Campion/Whimsy cross, and Fox has taken a step or two forward, but it...
workaday mp3Unabridged and read by James Saxon . 6 hrs 31 mins duration. 6 CD's[Book 3, 1935:]blurb - Ngaio Marsh's best selling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime fiction of all time. Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane H...
More simplistic, less imaginative, this mystery centers around a surgery gone wrong that hides a clever murder. DCI Alleyn is on the case but the plot is weighted down by unnecessary tangents, paper thin suspects and when the murderer is revealed you go huh. Not a good sign. A very average novel.
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