- Fiction, New Zealand Detective and mystery stories, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character)
The 24th formerly Inspector, now Superintendent Alleyn detective novel. A mysterious wealthy patron gives a young man a "bombed-out" theater along with a glove belonging to "the bard," Shakespeare. Once the theater is renovated, the man is inspired to write a play about the glove. The play is a success, a violent death occurs, someone is attacked and the glove is stolen.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Collins, Felony & Mayhem, LLC
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- German, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780006142188
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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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