Roderick Alleyn Mysteries: Overture to Death (Audiobook)

from mstrust

The little English village of Chipping has decided to put on a play starring the local rector and the two harpy spinsters who are fighting over him. When one of the women is murdered in view of the whole village, Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard is sent in. This was my first Marsh and I found th...

from thornton37814

A couple of ladies are vying for the attentions of the rector. There is a play to be performed to raise money for a new piano. The old piano is played when one of the ladies dies while playing the third note of an overture. With a last-minute change in pianists, Roderick Alleyn must figure out th...

from nmhale

A fantastic entry in the Roderick Alleyn series. Marsh really excels when she blends her mystery stories with some element of drama, which is probably due to the fact that she actually worked with the theater when she wasn't writing. All of the novels that I have enjoyed the most have always invo...

from lahochstetler

No one can write a caustic old parish busy-body quite like Marsh. They appear throughout her books, but in this one we have two of the best. Eleanor Prentice and Idris Campanula spend their days trying to uphold the moral standards of the village, lusting after the vicar, and intervening everywhe...

from lexieconyngham

Grand traditional yarn with the usual characters well built up before the action - some borderline cariacature, some more complex. Setting conventional English village, method quirky and cunning. Police detective lovely and witty. I'm rereading a whole shelf of these Ngaio Marsh so won't review a...