Opening Night (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
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Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and now, driven by sheer necessity, she was glad to accept the humble job of dresser to its leading lady.
And then came the eagerly awaited Opening Night. To Martyn the night brought a strange turn of the wheel of fortune тАУ but to one distinguished member of the cast it was to bring sudden and unforeseen death...
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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 MarshтАЩs real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand publicтАЩs interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her тАШdameryтАЩ in 1966.
