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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the sixth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
OPENING NIGHT
Dreams of stardom lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to a soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. Now, driven by sheer necessity, she accepts the humble job of dresser to the Vulcan Theatre's leading lady. But the eagerly awaited opening night brings a strange turn of the wheel of fortune - and sudden unforeseen death…
SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDY
High in the mountains stands an historic Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. Roderick Alleyn, on holiday with his family, suspects that a huge drugs ring operates from within the castle. When someone else stumbles upon the secret, Mr Oberon decides his strange rituals require a human sacrifice…
SCALES OF JUSTICE
The inhabitants of Swevenings are stirred only by a fierce competition to catch a monster trout known to dwell in their beautiful stream. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish…
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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 Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handed 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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As for 'Opening Night' it is one of several works set in the theatre which was Ms Marsh's abiding passion. The Anzac waif Martyn Tarne wanders the sombre early 1950's London streets looking for acting roles and accidentally gets her chance as a dresser to the stars at the Vulcan Theatre in the West End.
Barely has the curtain risen before death stalks the Green Room and Inspector Alleyne arrives to decide whether it is suicide or murder? The novel requires a suspension of critical examination as coincidence arrives in spades. Martyn has 'dropped out of a clear sky into her own success story' and Alleyne solves the whole thing in a couple of hours.
Alleyne's skills appear to be 'a royal blue voice' and 'a talent for reading between the lines'. He also has his trusted colleague 'Brer Fox' or 'Foxkin' as he is somewhat ambiguously called. This is pure whodunnit? and will please fans of this genre (more Christie than Sayers).
Will read the other two stories on a quiet Sunday afternoon, it's that type of literature.
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