Tied Up in Tinsel, Ngaio Marsh
Tied Up in Tinsel, Ngaio Marsh
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Tied Up in Tinsel

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

The occasion is a Christmas party hosted by Mr. Hilary BillTasman, landed proprietor of Halberds Manor and authority on antiques. Attending the festivities are a number of unusual characters, several of whom are perfectly logical candidates for murdererand one of whom will elude the most prescient listener until tracked down by the indefatigable Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, whose wife Troy innocently involved him in all these sinister goingson in the first place.

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 John on January 30, 2012

I was amused by the review that said Christie was a better author than Marsh because it took fully half of Tied up in Tinsel for the murder to occur. To me that means half a book of character development—half a book of learning about personalities, relationships, motives. And for all Christie’s fant......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on December 16, 2018

Sometimes I confuse myself as I am capable of intense dislike as well as great admiration for an author's work. Is it my mood when I read? I would not like to think so. I believe I have awarded just one star to a few books by Marsh and kind of gave up on the idea that I could like her Alleyn books. S......more

Goodreads review by John on December 11, 2021

A Xmas mystery. An isolated house where all the servants were once convicted of murder. Troy is painting Hillary the owner and an avowed eccentric snob keen on the rehabilitation of criminals. Moult the Colonels manservant disappears after delivering presents. Where is he? What has happened? Moult w......more

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