Vintage Murder

Name: Vintage Murder
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405531887

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #5

Narrator: James Saxon

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 10/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up on stage after the performance.
But something went horribly wrong. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn witnessed it himself. Was Meyer's death the product of Maori superstitions? Or something much more down to earth?

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 April 23, 2020

Another enjoyable read. Inspector Roderick Alleyn is on on holiday New Zealand. During a trip in the middle of the North Island he shares a train carriage with a traveling acting company from England. He makes friends with them and is invited to the first show in Middleton and a birthday party for t......more

Goodreads review by Dillwynia on June 17, 2018

The two things Ngaio Marsh loved were the theatre and New Zealand. Both feature in this book, and the love shines through. Marsh started after Christie and it is obvious that Marsh learnt the craft from those writers of the time that were pushing the boundaries of crime fiction. Thus, even from the......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 07, 2021

I love Ngaio Marsh and my book crush is definitely Roderick Alleyn but this (sadly like Death in Ecstasy) left me a bit flat. It plodded on well but lacked the sparkle of some of the other Inspector Alleyn books I'd read, I don't know if it was the setting (New Zealand rather than England) or the plo......more

Goodreads review by Marisol on February 12, 2024

El inspector Alleyn Roderyck de Scotland Yard se presenta viajando en tren, tomando unas vacaciones en Nueva Zelanda 🇳🇿, se encuentra con un grupo teatral inglés que inicia gira en este exótico país. Conoce a la bella actriz Carolyn Dacres, quien es esposa del empresario teatral que financia la obra.......more

Goodreads review by Bev on June 05, 2018

Vintage Murder (1937) by Ngaio Marsh finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn on a rest cure holiday in the large island country of New Zealand. He's recovering from some unnamed injury acquired in the line of duty and he's hoping for a trip full of nothing but peace and quiet. However, while traveling cross......more