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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....

©1982 Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio Cosy Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Thriller Crime Detective
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Excellent reading/acting. Highly recommended. One of Ngaio Marsh's evocations of a theatre company at which she excelled.

Very well done

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This is very well narrated by Philip Franks. The story however is pretty awful in my humble opinion. It gives a detailed and lengthy description of the rehearsals for a high-profile production of MacBeth which ends in tragedy. Alleyne appears late on and there is no clever detection - just a lucky break and a confession. I’ve enjoyed others by this author but this is disappointing.

Great narration but…

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Written in the fine, easy to read prose of Ngaio Marsh, a well told tale of mystery and murder in the English theatre.
Gripping to the last and plays by the rules of The Detection Club. (it is fair to its readers)

Excellent! Traditional! Murder/Mystery

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Marsh loved, and was very knowledgeable, about Shakespeare and theatre. As a traditional whodunit, the story is swamped by the play and the murderer is obvious even before the crime is committed. But if you love theatre production, this could be for you. The reader is excellent.

If you are REALLY interested in staging Macbeth...

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It is an odd book really. I like her writing despite a few flaws. This story has a common flaw of longer books, which is a great load of not really much happening that isn't needed for the mystery before the murder happens. But this book is mainly a description of the rehearsals for Macbeth. It's like what she was really interested in writing was how a play is put on. Then a very weak mystery she didn't care about was bunged on the end to justify it. Maybe there was a deadline to meet or her heart wasn't in it. Who knows? It is interesting but not as a whodunnit.

Not one of her best

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