The Nursing Home Murder

Name: The Nursing Home Murder
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (122 reviews)
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405531870

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #3

Narrator: Philip Franks

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 01/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead.
Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why...

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 Nicky

This is my third Ngaio Marsh novel and I still have somewhat mixed feelings. I'm not into her detective character at all -- there's been too little personality and depth, just a lot of surface shine -- and the structure is now formulaic. Set-up for a murder with many potential motives -> murder whic......more