Light Thickens
Ngaio Marsh
Jan 2016 · Inspector Alleyn Book 32 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Philip Franks
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Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.
But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience...
But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience...
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Deborah Shepherd
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4 February 2023
Dame Ngaio Marsh is at her best when, as in this book, she combines her theatrical experience with her formidable writing skill. Characters are vividly alive, drawn with penetrating insight. The plot is compelling. Don't miss this book.
About the author
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.
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