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This vintage mystery, featuring inspector Roderick Alleyn, is remarkably fresh for a novel written in 1936. References to a sea voyage and a character's racial slur directed at a Maori doctor are about the only things that date it. Marsh's series character Alleyn (of Scotland Yard) has gone to New Zealand to vacation and recuperate from a work-related injury. It is no surprise when he becomes involved in the intrigues of a British theater troupe traveling along the same route (and in the same conveyances). A near accident on the train is passed off as just that; but when a celebratory stunt involving a huge bottle of champagne at an after-theater party turns deadly, Alleyn finds that the police in the small New Zealand town are very glad that he was at the scene. Reader James Saxon demonstrates his experience and versatility, conquering a variety of dialects of both Britishers and New Zealanders. This is a production that completely captures the moods of the characters and the atmosphere of the country. A good selection for larger collections and essential for libraries with others in the series.AMelody A. Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, NC
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From AudioFile
Ngaio Marsh is undeservedly one of the least appreciated writers of the British Golden Age of mystery. This early adventure of Inspector Roderick Alleyn is read with magnificent force and versatility by British stage and television star James Saxon. Set in the author's native New Zealand, where the Scotland Yard detective is on holiday, VINTAGE MURDER follows a traveling English theater company whose manager is killed when a rigged champagne bottle falls on his head. Saxon effectively captures the personalities, the ethnicities and the social strata of the many characters. His smooth and effortless reading adds to the colorful characters, theatrical background, and New Zealand setting of Marsh's novel. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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This vintage mystery, featuring inspector Roderick Alleyn, is remarkably fresh for a novel written in 1936. References to a sea voyage and a character's racial slur directed at a Maori doctor are about the only things that date it. Marsh's series character Alleyn (of Scotland Yard) has gone to New Zealand to vacation and recuperate from a work-related injury. It is no surprise when he becomes involved in the intrigues of a British theater troupe traveling along the same route (and in the same conveyances). A near accident on the train is passed off as just that; but when a celebratory stunt involving a huge bottle of champagne at an after-theater party turns deadly, Alleyn finds that the police in the small New Zealand town are very glad that he was at the scene. Reader James Saxon demonstrates his experience and versatility, conquering a variety of dialects of both Britishers and New Zealanders. This is a production that completely captures the moods of the characters and the atmosphere of the country. A good selection for larger collections and essential for libraries with others in the series.AMelody A. Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, NC
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From AudioFile
Ngaio Marsh is undeservedly one of the least appreciated writers of the British Golden Age of mystery. This early adventure of Inspector Roderick Alleyn is read with magnificent force and versatility by British stage and television star James Saxon. Set in the author's native New Zealand, where the Scotland Yard detective is on holiday, VINTAGE MURDER follows a traveling English theater company whose manager is killed when a rigged champagne bottle falls on his head. Saxon effectively captures the personalities, the ethnicities and the social strata of the many characters. His smooth and effortless reading adds to the colorful characters, theatrical background, and New Zealand setting of Marsh's novel. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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