Black as Hes Painted, Ngaio Marsh
Black as Hes Painted, Ngaio Marsh
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Black as He's Painted

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2011

Synopsis

When the president of Ngombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old schoolmate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to try to persuade him otherwise. Alleyn does so. However, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn discovers a wealth of suspects residing in the very shadow of the embassy.

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 John

SPOILERS AHEAD An unusual mystery with so few suspects. Sheridan the dubious tenant in the basement flat of Mr Whipplestone’s flat, the Chubb’s,the disgusting Sanskrit brother and sister or the drunken Colonel Cockburn-Montfort and his wife. Alleyn’s old school friend Boomer visits the UK. He is now......more

Goodreads review by Lady Wesley

Review of the audiobook narrated by Nadia May Continuing with my Ngaio Marsh audiobook glom -- largely courtesy of Audible Plus having so many titles in their catalog -- I reached this book, which is rather controversial for its antiquated racial and class biases. The author's attitudes, which are th......more

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