by NgaioMarsh (Author)
The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.
Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.
But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New e.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 19 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0006512321
ISBN 13: 9780006512325
`Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection... a fine swansong.'
Observer
`As always she writes most elegantly.'
Daily Telegraph
`Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.'
Daily Telegraph
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.
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