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    False Scent (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    By Ngaio Marsh

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 29, 2009
    ISBN9780007344765
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    False Scent (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
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    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 an 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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    • 3/5
      An interesting and enjoyable read. It's a theatrical setting which Ngaia would have enjoyed writing about. She paints her characters fuller than Agatha Christie. The story flowed well alowing you to test out your theories of how the crime was committed.
    • 3/5
      An interesting way to commit impromptu murder in this entry of the Alleyn series! I figured out the guilty party fairly early (even before the murder had happened!) though there were critical aspects that I didn't get until Alleyn explained them.
    • 3/5
      I really like some of the minor characters in this one, especially Octavius Browne. (Jan 2008)
    • 3/5
      Still post-war theatrical mystery by Ngaio Marsh. Her theatrical mysteries seem to be the most overwrought and tiresome. The actual murder had a little in common with that in Swing, Brother, Swing.
    • 3/5
      I own every single book ever published by Agatha Christie (including two copies of her autobiography), but after a while reading the same books over and over started to get boring. One remembers the plots quite easily. Ngaio Marsh is more in the same vein, but with snappier dialogue and without the irritating love of ellipses that tends to overwhelm a few of Ms. Christie's more disturbing murder mysteries. Great fun all around, although neither has anything on Dorothy Sayers...
    • 4/5
      I guess you could classify this one as one of Marsh’s “theater” novels even though we never get to the theater. The story revolves around the death of a famous, but now somewhat “over the hill” comedic actress at her birthday party. The characters are all theater people (except the police, of course) even though the setting is more “country house.” The house is actually in a square in London but we never get any further than next door so it seems more isolated. It’s a good yarn but before the end I had guessed “who” and at least partially had a handle on “why” and “how” but the timetable Alleyn elucidated in the end was cleverly worked out. My conclusions, although correct, couldn’t have been proved without that timetable.
    • 3/5
      More relaxation with a good murder - another theatrical one with the Leading Lady, the ingenue etc...
    • 5/5
      A gala birthday party for an aging actress - Mary Bellamy. But unfortunately for the birtday girl, Mary is found on the bedroom floor - dead. Is it an accident, suicide or homicide. Inspector Alleyn comes in to investigate, can he find the answer among all of Mary's "friends" who all seem to have a motive?Very good Marsh book, I enjoyed this one. Good story and plot.