Colour Scheme, Ngaio Marsh
Colour Scheme, Ngaio Marsh
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Colour Scheme

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2005


Synopsis

It was a horrible death. Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him, the English exiles hed hated, the New Zealanders hed despised, the Maoris hed insulted, or even the spies hed thwartedif he wasnt a spy himself.

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 Olivia-Savannah on June 26, 2020

I was a bit disappointed by this mystery, as the other three in the collection had been so wonderful… My main problem with this book was that there wasn’t a single character I liked. And I understand that even though you’re not supposed to like them, I am a happier reader when at least one character......more

Goodreads review by John on May 01, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. A combination of crime and spying set in a New Zealand hot springs setting. A genteel English immigrant family struggling to survive in 1943. Maurice Questing an unlikeable businessman who is planning to call in his loan and take over the hot springs. Mr Gaunt a famo......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on October 29, 2019

I like Ngaio Marsh's mysteries in a lukewarm sort of way. They are not as mind-bending as Dame Agatha's, nor literary like those of Dorothy Sayers or P. D. James. However, they are very old-world and cosy; eminently readable; and Roderick Alleyn is a likeable sleuth. And in almost all of them, you c......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on January 13, 2019

Hard to write a review after the miserable ending I simply abhorred. The majority of the book was a very entertaining read, however. Within the first 43 pages or so I was in hysterics and glad no one was around to hear me hooting. The characters Dame Marsh populated this book with are gems. She also......more

Goodreads review by Krista on January 29, 2020

On second read. She got me. She totally got me. And I can't even tell you the details of how she did it because it would spoil everything that I enjoyed about this book. I know I've read it before but I think it was only my 2nd or 3rd Marsh so on first read I didn't have any expectations as to how it......more