Photo Finish, Ngaio Marsh
Photo Finish, Ngaio Marsh
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Photo Finish

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: James Saxon

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe was the ideal place for the world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour. Chief Superintendent Alleyn and his wife were among the house guests - but theirs was not a social visit.
When tragedy struck, the peace of the island was shattered. With a houseful of suspects, now isolated by one of the lake's sudden storms, Alleyn was to face one of his trickiest cases...

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 Kathy on July 04, 2019

Very entertaining book, published in 1980 toward the end of Marsh's career with a New Zealand setting, her home ground. In this instance both Alleyn and his wife Troy are asked to attend a gathering on a remote island. Troy is asked to paint a portrait of the talented soprano, opera singer Isabella......more

Goodreads review by John on May 30, 2020

Ngaio Marsh second to last novel. Set entirely in New Zealand at a remote lake house on the West Coast of the South Island. Inspector Alleyn with his wife Troy there for her to paint a portrait of Isabella Sommita a world famous temperamental opera singer who thanks to a paparazzi photographer is at......more

Goodreads review by Simon on May 18, 2012

Originally published on my blog here in October 1999. Right at the end of her career, Marsh took her detective Alleyn back to her beloved New Zealand, scene of some of his earlier successes. It was almost forty years after her previous novel set outside Europe. Photo Finish also features a flamboyant......more

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