by Ngaio Marsh
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...
One of the better. 3.5.
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