Vintage Murder
Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to date confined his investigations to England, but Vintage Murder finds him journeying to New Zealand (Ngaio Marsh’s homeland). Traveling with Alleyn are the members of the Carolyn Dacres English Comedy Company. The actors' operatic intrigues offer an amusing...
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Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to date confined his investigations to England, but Vintage Murder finds him journeying to New Zealand (Ngaio Marsh’s homeland). Traveling with Alleyn are the members of the Carolyn Dacres English Comedy Company. The actors' operatic intrigues offer an amusing diversion until, unexpectedly, they turn deadly. And Alleyn learns – not for the last time – that while he may be able to leave his badge back in Blighty, he’s still a policeman, even on the other side of the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781937384142 (1937384144)
Publish date: March 16th 2012
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery,
Golden Age Mystery
Series: Roderick Alleyn (#5)
I spontaneously picked the audio version of this book yesterday as my book for "Snakes and Ladders" square no. 40, "characters involved in the entertainment industry"; realizing that I'd read it so long ago that I remembered little more than the (rather unusual) method of murder and the fact that it...
I spontaneously picked the audio version of this book yesterday as my book for "Snakes and Ladders" square no. 40, "characters involved in the entertainment industry"; realizing that I'd read it so long ago that I remembered little more than the (rather unusual) method of murder and the fact that it...
The first of the early Alleyns to properly hit its stride. Told, unusually, primarily from Alleyn's point of view, it has Alleyn's personality finally established and a thankful absence of secret societies, communists, and Nigel Bathgate. The mystery is cleverly established. Not a stand-out, but ...
This was above average Marsh. Inspector Alleyn is on vacation, following a sick leave from Scotland Yard, it's hinted that he had a surgery of some sort. New Zealand is the place, Marsh knows it pretty well since it's her country where a Theater Company on tour finds itself with a huge problem. The...
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