Final Curtain

Name: Final Curtain
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405531924

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #14

Narrator: James Saxon

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 10/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.
The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in - in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn...

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 Kris

The reviewer notes on the cover said it was "time to stop comparing Marsh to Agatha Christie, and start comparing Christie to Marsh", implying (and elsewhere boldly stating) that Marsh was the better writer. I've read just about everything Christie put out, and quite a bit of Marsh's oeuvre, and whi......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

14th Alleyn book from 1947. Lucky to have read another Felony & Mayhem pristine paperback from my library. I can only conclude few patrons have found the trove of Marsh books as each seem brand new to me. Shhh! In the timeline of the married life of Agatha Troy, painter, and her Scotland Yard husband......more

Goodreads review by Bev

Final Curtain (1947) by Ngaio Marsh finds Agatha Troy waiting for her husband's return from several years of war work in New Zealand and Australia. Inspector Alleyn is due back any time and Troy worries that the long separation may have spoiled their young relationship. When a request (a near-royal......more

Goodreads review by Елена

Ооооочень приятная книга. Я буквально влюбилась в Найо Марш и её главных героев, в атмосферу романа, во все эти упоминания деталей, характерных для быта 40-х годов. Вот только детективная развязка меня не устроила - логика преступления не показалась убедительной, а оборванная концовка после неспешно......more