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Light Thickens
The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.
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The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of Light Thickens, her final novel.
Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience...
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Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh is celebrated for its adherence to classic English detective story traditions, with reviewers praising it as an elegant and fitting concluding work. The Observer lauds it as a fine swansong, while the Daily Telegraph highlights Marsh's consistently elegant writing and acknowledges her as a master of the genre.
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ISBN: 9780006512325
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 August 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.
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