

A Wreath for Rivera
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Narrator: Nadia May
Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Narrator: Nadia May
Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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.
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
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
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
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
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