Opening Night: Inspector Roderick Alleyn (Volume 16) - Ngaio Marsh

Category: Adults, Classic, Crime, Detective
Language: English
Keywords: Inspector Roderick Alleyn Traditional Detective Mysteries

Written by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon
Format: Opus
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

This is one of Ngaio Marsh’s best, and that means it is very good, but beware that “Night at the Vulcan” is the American title. In the UK it has always been published as “Opening Night”.
From the leading lady’s liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead — there’s never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard’s Inspector Alleyn sets to work assembling a cast of suspects for the final curtain.