A Wreath for Rivera, Ngaio Marsh
A Wreath for Rivera, Ngaio Marsh
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A Wreath for Rivera

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn and his wife Troy are relaxing at a night club. At the table next to theirs is the party of George Settinger, marquis of Pastern and Bagott. All are waiting for the feature of the floor show. Part of the performance calls for Lord Pastern to fire a gun full of blanks at a band member and for the latter to slump and fall and be borne out by waiters, a wreath over his heart, playing dead. But something goes terribly wrong.

About Ngaio Marsh

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on May 28, 2015

I absolutely love British mysteries. True, they are not realistic: more an exercise in cerebration than realistic criminal investigation. It is a sort of magic trick-literary sleight of hand. We try to guess - without success - "whodunit"; and we are delighted when in the last chapter, the detective......more

Goodreads review by Andree on December 27, 2016

Disappointing. This one sort of encapsulates a lot of what is sometimes wrong with these for me. Fox and Alleyn are their usual charming selves, but there's too little of them, and they show up to late. And everyone else who is involved in the mystery is annoying. Basically, this centres around a ridi......more

Goodreads review by Bill on June 02, 2019

I enjoy the Chief Inspector Alleyn mysteries very much. The series, by Ngaio Marsh is right there with other classic mystery series; like those by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Elizabeth Daly, amongst others. I've read 7 or 8 of the Alleyn books and they get better with each new story. A Wr......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on September 22, 2022

Fifteenth in the Inspector Roderick Alleyn vintage mystery series about a Scotland Yard detective. Set in London in the late 1940s, the focus is on an eccentric peer and his new passion as a tympanist. It was originally published in 1949. My Take Okayyy . . . Swing, Brother, Swing takes off with a met......more

Goodreads review by Bev on July 23, 2019

A Wreath for Rivera (1st pub as Swing Brother Swing; 1949) by Ngaio Marsh finds Lord Pastern & Bagott, the very model of eccentric British aristocracy taking up jazz drumming (or becoming a tympanist, according to Marsh). His eccentric nature has reminded Curtis at the Passing Tramp of real-life ecc......more

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