Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

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Summary

The usual opening night scandals behind the scenes at the Vulcan Theater - including the leading lady's tumultuous love affair - are upstaged by a death, bring Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn scurrying to the wings.

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Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and now, driven by sheer necessity, she was glad to accept the humble job of dresser to its leading lady. And then came the eagerly awaited Opening Night. To Martyn the night brought a strange turn of the wheel of fortune - but to one distinguished member of the cast it was to bring sudden and unforeseen death...
Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s.
SKU Unavailable
EAN 9781405507455
Title Opening Night
Release date 2009-08-06
Format Abridged Audiobook CD
Studio Hachette Audio
Condition Unavailable
By (author) Ngaio Marsh
Read by Anton Lesser