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Enter a Murderer von Ngaio Marsh
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Enter a Murderer (Original 1935; 2011. Auflage)

von Ngaio Marsh (Autor)

Reihen: Roderick Alleyn (2)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage: "Good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories." â??The New York Times
Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks. And when it comes to interviewing witnesses, actors can be a deceptive lot . . .
"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." â??New York Magazin
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Titel:Enter a Murderer
Autoren:Ngaio Marsh (Autor)
Info:HarperCollins (2011), Edition: New Ed, 176 pages
Sammlungen:Read/ used in 2021, Deine Bibliothek, Fiction, On My Shelves, Re-reads, Read between 2014-2018
Bewertung:****
Tags:fiction, crime, detection, Rory Alleyn

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Ein Schuss im Theater von Ngaio Marsh (1935)

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Originally published in 1935, Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh is the second of her mysteries to feature Inspector Roderick Alleyn. This particular mystery is set in and about a theatre, a world in which the author knew well as she has spent time touring as an actress and had experience as a director.

This book delves into the theatre world and the personalities of the cast and crew. The murder took place on the stage and was viewed by many including Inspector Alleyn and his friend, Nigel Bathgate. The victim is an actor that no one liked and so there was no limit to the number of suspects. Inspector Alleyn needed to work his way through all the suspects and also look into past scandal and a drug connection. I did feel that during the course of the story, the author used too many red herrings so when the actual murderer was finally revealed at the end of the book, I felt a little blah about the whole thing.

This second book helps to develop the character of Inspector Alleyn and he holds his own against so many larger-than-life theatre personalities. The writing was lively with plenty of wit and charm and I will definitely be reading more from this series. ( )
  DeltaQueen50 | Mar 21, 2023 |
Secondo volume della serie di mistery scritti da Ngaio Marsh, che nonostante venga dalla Nuova Zelanda è considerata una delle regine del giallo classico all'inglese.
Siamo ancora ben lontani dai fasti di una Agatha Christie, ma con questo romanzo mi sembra che le cose comincino ad ingranare meglio rispetto all'esordio, infatti lo svolgimento è più fluido e meno schematico e soprattutto stavolta la soluzione è logica e ben congegnata. Certo per gli appassionati di mistery non sarà niente di nuovo o di sconvolgente, ma la curiosità di arrivare alla fine c'è sempre e in fondo è questa la cosa più importante in un giallo.
L'ambientazione teatrale è particolarmente suggestiva, perché sfuma il confine tra finzione e realtà accrescendo l'aura di mistero.
I protagonisti sono tutti ambigui quanto basta, mentre il nostro poliziotto di fiducia Roderick Alleyn qui comincia finalmente ad avere una personalità ben definita, che non mi ha conquistato a dire la verità ma a cui sono più che disposta a dare la possibilità di farsi conoscere meglio; possibilità che mi sento di concedere all'intera serie di romanzi, sperando che continuino a migliorare volume dopo volume. ( )
  Lilirose_ | Jul 13, 2022 |
Summary: Invited to see a play with his sidekick Bathgate, Alleyn actually witnesses the murder he will investigate.

Nigel Bathgate is friends with the lead actor in a play at the unicorn and receives two tickets to a performance. His friend, and lead partner in crime investigation, Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is free and joins him. Before the play, they visit the lead actor, Felix Gardner and witness tensions within the cast as Arthur Subornadier barges into a conversation with Gardner and actress Stephanie Vaughn, a lovers’ triangle with Subornadier the jilted lover. We also learn that Subornadier had threatened the theatre owner, Jacob Saint with blackmail to get the lead part. Are you getting the picture that Subornadier is not a very likable character. Turns out he has offended most of the cast and crew.

During the climactic scene, the character played by Subornadier loads a gun (supposedly with dummy bullets) quarrels with Gardner’s character. Gardner gets the gun, fires and kills Subornadier as the stage manager fires a blank shot. Only Gardner really kills Subornadier, and Alleyn sees it all and calls in his crew to investigate. Quickly, they figure out the murder is the one who substitute real bullets for the dummies that were in the top drawer of a desk during a short time when the stage was blacked out. Attention focuses on various characters including Jacob Saint, who is eventually arrested, and Albert Hickson, the property manager who was responsible for the bullets–until Hickson turns up dead while Saint is in jail.

The climax comes when the actors return to the theatre to re-enact their movements in the final scene. In the end the murderer self-exposes, the very person who Alleyn had written down for his newswriting sidekick, Bathgate. And so ends the first of Marsh’s murder mysteries set in a theatre–a favorite location.

This is early Alleyn. He and Bathgate are still learning to trust each other. Alleyn seems a bit rougher around the edges than in later novels, and without Troy in the picture, suggestively returns the attentions of lead actress Stephanie Vaughn, who doesn’t seem to mind gathering men around her. At the same time, the trademark qualities of Alleyn emerge, his quiet, commanding character that marshals the efforts of his team, including Bathgate and his focus on details and not appearances until the murderer is revealed.

This was a quick read and great fun with an unexpected twist at the end–all the ingredients for a good mystery, and for one just beginning the series, an indication of the good things to come with thirty more of these to go! ( )
  BobonBooks | Apr 28, 2022 |
I've had Ngaio Marsh on my TBR pile for a few years now, and kept putting her off because the titles I have are all related to acting (Marsh herself being a former actress), and the stage and it's behind-the-scenes drama doesn't interest me much. Still, she's a Golden Age writer of note, and I was determined to give the books a try.

I got off to a rough start; Golden Age writers generally have a very different writing style from most of today's fiction. More staccato, more concise, and it takes me a period of adjustment to find the rhythm. Enter a Murderer felt like that adjustment period took longer than usual, but once I found the groove, it was easy reading.

Alleyn has pale shades of Holmes about him; he's a thinking man's detective, and he likes to hold the clues close. This was not a fair play mystery, though it was written smack in the middle of the era of Fair Play. Still, I liked Alleyn well enough and I quite liked his sidekick, Nigel Bathgate.

The plot was, perhaps, trying too hard to be clever. By the end (after the reveal) it's obvious what Marsh was aiming for, and it was an admirable goal, but achieving it required a fair amount of convoluted plotting. I don't know if it didn't work for me because it was overdone, or because it required too much time with the secondary characters, all stereotypical stage actors of one sort or another, and hence, unreliable in the extreme. Either way, I was unable to buy the motive, although I did enjoy the ride for the most part.

I have a few other Marsh books on the TBR pile, and I'll happily read them; there's enough here to peak my interest, if not quite enough to spark my devotion. ( )
  murderbydeath | Feb 9, 2022 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage: "Good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories." â??The New York Times
Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks. And when it comes to interviewing witnesses, actors can be a deceptive lot . . .
"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." â??New York Magazin

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