- Mystery, Police, Fiction in English, Fiction
The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, dead-with a gun Arthur himself loaded with blanks. Or did he? How the live bullets got there, and why, make for a convoluted case that pits Inspector Roderick Alleyn against someone who rates an Oscar for a murderously clever performance
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Collins Crime, Jove Books, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780006135517
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“ON MAY 25TH Arthur Surbonadier, whose real name was Arthur Simes, went to visit his uncle, Jacob Saint, whose real name was Jacob Simes.”
Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of New Zealand’s most remarkable and charismatic women, was world-renowned as a leading crime fiction writer and as an eminent Shakespearian producer. --ngaio-marsh.org
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