Enter a Murderer

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Classic / Marsh, Ngaio, Mystery / Marsh, Ngaio
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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The crime was committed on stage at the theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent; the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.

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The dialogue's the thing submitted by terpsichore17 on July 28, 2021, 11:16am Very enjoyable mystery. I think Alleyn makes more sense in a theater than in Rome, somehow (and I'm still waiting for the library's copy of A Man Lay Dead, to see how Nigel Bathgate strikes me on first meeting him).

I imagine that this is one of the earlier examples of murder-by-seeming-prop-weapon, and the fact that Alleyn was backstage before hand, and then in the audience to witness it firsthand just makes it more effective.

I'm surprised that Alleyn allows Bathgate to play Watson for such a large part of the story, and also found his interest in Stephanie Vaughan to be peculiar and off-putting. And yet, the interplay between the various actors, Alleyn, Bathgate and his various acquaintances, Fox, and Bradley all made this whodunnit particularly enjoyable. Nice little bit of play-within-the-play at the end.

Enjoyable mystery submitted by kathscot on July 1, 2022, 4:11pm An enjoyable author who juggles a large number of suspects well. Alleyn is an interesting character.

Not Marsh's best submitted by StephanieSheffield on July 23, 2022, 5:17pm Alleyn's character is this book seems very different from the later novels, but then, this is one of the early ones. I prefer the later version of the character, but this is still a fun story.