Inspector Roderick Alleyn: Night at the Vulcan (Paperback)

from bohemima

An unsatisfactory mystery with an equally unsatisfactory romance subplot. A young woman emigrates to England, eager for a career in the theater. Down to a few coins, she miraculously comes across The Vulcan Theatre, which is in desperate need of a dresser. One thing leads to another in a most imp...

from Herenya

Martyn Tarne, a young actress from New Zealand, arrives in England with no money and no immediate job prospects. After a fortnight of fruitless job-hunting, she arrives late for the auditions at the Vulcan Theatre - but not too late to overhear the leading lady's dresser is ill. It is not the sor...

from themulhern

Marsh's novels about the theatre are overwrought and histrionic. It seems weird that she could write in this vein about a milieu and subject with which she was so familiar. One of the actors rapes his wife, and the teenage protagonist deflects the sexual overtures of the night watchman at the the...

from baswood

Night at the Vulcan (Opening Night) - Ngaio Marsh Ngaio Marsh was known as one of the "Queens of Crime". She wrote 32 detective novels during the period 1934-1982 and Night at the Vulcan published in 1951 was number 17 and so just over halfway through the oeuvre. All the novels feature Inspector ...