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Enter a Murderer
Enter a Murderer: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #2 | Ngaio Marsh
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Ngaio Marsh was, among other things, a well-respected theatrical producer (having started out as an actress), and her passion for and knowledge of the theater was displayed in many of Alleyn’s adventures. In Enter a Murderer, the Inspector has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks.
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shanaqui

I have a stinking headache, so I'm mostly curled up without screens. I found a stack of omnibuses of the Roderick Alleyn books at my parents', which I'd left there when I moved out, and got the urge to reread -- I inhaled the first book on Boxing Day, but gave it a break until now after that. I actually don't remember much of the plots, it's almost like reading a book I've never read before.

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The second of the Roderick Alleyn mysteries. Nigel invites Inspector Alleyn to a play, in the course of which an actor is murdered while onstage in front of the audience. Many red herrings, but Alleyn, as always, finds the murderer out. Still no Troy.

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Pickpick

It took me longer than I expected to finish this one. I felt that it dragged in the beginning. Inspector Alleyn in this book is different from Inspector Alleyn later in the series (I read #26 in the series before I read this one). Here, he wisecracks more, which I didn‘t necessarily like. The ending was a good twist that I didn‘t see coming, so full points for that. Overall this was a good mystery that entertained and engaged me.

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azulaco
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Current read. I have three days left on the lending period, so I‘ve put aside some other books to finish this one. It should be a quick read.