Ngaio Marsh

Overture to Death (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by "a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews). In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old ladies. They're waspish, gossiping snobby little old ladies, passionate only about their amateur theatrical productions, their narrowly defined opinions about how everyone else should behave....and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could one of them have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer? For Miss Campanula has perished on her piano bench-and it's unclear whether Miss Prentice may have been the actual intended victim... "A goodie." - Kirkus Reviews "It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." - New York Magazine "In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature." - The New York Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Felony & Mayhem Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937384227
• Artikelnr.: 39135745

Autorenporträt

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 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.