Overture to Death, Ngaio Marsh
Overture to Death, Ngaio Marsh
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Overture to Death
A Roderick Alleyn Mystery

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2011

Synopsis

Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of peopleamong them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others lives merely for her own excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realizes that the murderer might have killed the wrong womanand may soon stage a repeat performance.

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.

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Goodreads review by Bev on August 24, 2018

When reading the synopsis for Overture to Death (1939) by Ngaio Marsh, one can be excused for thinking that this will be another of her theatrical mysteries. After all, it tells us that a group of seven amateur actors are preparing to put on the play Shop Windows when Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C Sh......more

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