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Vintage Murder

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: James Saxon
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A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels.

New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up onstage after the performance.

But something went horribly wrong. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn witnessed it himself. Was Meyer’s death the product of Maori superstitions? Or something much more down to earth?

©1937 Original Text of 1937 by Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio Cosy Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime

Critic Reviews

"The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers." ( Times Literary Supplement)
"The theatre detail is engrossing." (Margaret Lewis)
"A far more ambitious novel than anything Marsh had attempted before." ( American Journal of Popular Culture)
"Her work is as nearly flawless as makes no odds. Character, plot, wit, good writing, and sound technique." ( Sunday Times)
"The finest writer in the English languange of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress." ( The Sun)
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Wonderful darling Ngaio Marsh, thank you for your beloved books, great James Saxon, thank you for your excellent readings, you are gone now, so I leave you this epitaph: "Well Played, Sir!"

Yours ever, Roderyck Allein

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I was held by the great reading of this mystery, though the story was over-complicated.

Magnificent reading of old-style murder mystery

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Couldn't help but laugh at the accents, sounded like they were all in Australia

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.