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Colour Scheme

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Nadia May
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About this listen

 It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised, or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself...©1943 by Ngaio Marsh (P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Detective Espionage Murder Mystery

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This was my first Ngaio Marsh and I would definitely recommend it. The setting, characters and story were all superb. Narration was first class too.

Thoroughly Enjoyable

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This is a 'duvet read' best listened to wrapped in that duvet with a cup of tea, a couple of rich tea biscuits and nothing else to do.

Early Ngaio Marsh

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I love Ngiao Marshs books. This is no exception. Overall the narration is good, but the reader just cannot do accents to save her life! She should give up trying and just use her own rather pleasant voice.

Good old fashioned crime!

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I liked the descriptions of the volcanic sulphurous landscape. listening to a story I already had read seemed to bring the landscape to life so much more than when I had read the novel.
I was not keen on the Maori accents.

A glimpse of a New Zealanders

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Unusual to experience the urbane Alleyn in the wilds of New Zealand. Prefer his London and Norfolk investigations with fewer references to 'walking on pumice'. Clearly transferred from CD or tape so chapters aren't accurate, but the narration was pleasant

Disappointing villain...

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