A review by jlmb
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh

4.0

I'm a sucker for old mysteries - this one is from 1935. I love reading about advanced police methods like fingerprinting haha. The setting is a mix of modern and old fashioned - the twenties & thirties really straddled 2 eras and I think that makes them fascinating. One insult in the book was calling someone Edwardian. Oooh, snap! My favorite bit of the story was the plot line concerning "heroin parties" at Oxford. I imagined them like the marijuana party in Reefer Madness. One would think at a heroin party the guests are all just slumped over, nodding out, and it wouldn't lend itself much to further the storyline but hey, maybe kids were different back then! I joke about this book but really, it was a fine mystery and enjoyable to read.