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  • Death at the Bar

  • By: Ngaio Marsh
  • Narrated by: James Saxon
  • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Death at the Bar

By: Ngaio Marsh
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Publisher's Summary

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences.

At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in the taproom. They are in the habit of playing darts, but on this occasion an experiment takes the place of the usual game - a fatal experiment which calls for investigation.

A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare, and a Devonshire farmer all play their parts in the unravelling of the problem....

©1940 Original Text of 1940 by Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio

Critic Reviews

"Full marks...a really clever problem in detection. It will need a really sharp brain to discover the criminal." ( Times Literary Supplement)
"Read just one of Ngaio Marsh’s novels and you’ve got to read them all...." ( Daily Mail)
"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress." ( The Sun)

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Good yarn

I love ngaios stories well written and clever. In fact it’s hard to
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A bit far fetched

The book is well read and enjoyable for the most part but The conclusion is just a little too fanciful and spoils the whole experience.

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