Light Thickens (Inspector Roderick Alleyn, 32) (Volume 32) - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631940651 ISBN 13: 9781631940651

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2016

The bad news: This is the last in Ngaio Marsh's marvelous “Inspector Alleyn” series. The good: It's one of her very best. The secret to Light Thickens' success may lie in its combination of some of Marsh's greatest passions, including her native New Zealand –in the person of, unusually, a Maori character – and the theater. Indeed, the plot centers on a production of...well, let's skirt disaster by calling it “the Scottish play,” a play that Dame Ngaio produced and directed several times. Among theater folk, the Scottish play is considered unlucky, so much so that tradition requires anyone who utters its proper name backstage to leave the building, spin around, spit, curse, and then request permission to re-enter. For Ngaio Marsh, however, it seems to have been quite the opposite: Light Thickens is “a fine swansong,” said England's Observer, and the Los Angeles Times agreed, saying “No playwright could devise a better curtain” than the one Dame Ngaio chose for her own career.

From the Publisher:

'The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an empress' - The Sun

'Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection... A fine swan-song.' - Observer

'As always she writes most elegantly' - Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Dame Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens of the golden age of mystery and the author of 32 titles in the Inspector Roderick Alleyn series. She was born and grew up in New Zealand. Theater was perhaps her greatest passion in life, and she directed and produced a number of plays.