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A review by jessica_sim
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
2.0
I love reading Golden Age Detectives and as such, it was a pleasant experience, yet, I cannot really say I am convinced by it. I am looking forward to getting to know the writer and her detective more as the "Reading the Detectives" group here on Goodreads has embarked on a yearlong challenge reading her Alleyn series.
The atmosphere throughout is decidedly cosy. You can smell the theatre and get jut a riled up about their dramatic behaviour as the detective does. It just feels too much like an episode of Murder She Wrote to me. In fact, I have been raking my brains to remember in which show an episode identical to this was one was featured. I think Murder She Wrote a likely suspect, though in various adaptions this plot has been featured all over.
I just cannot get over the very basic question: why did the murder happen on this very night? Why not delay for a day or two when you have just been entertaining a detective as your VIP quest?
And, of course, you must take the time period into account but really all the flirtations and plain groping are not my taste.
So fun? Yes. A Ngaio Marsh superfan now? No.
The atmosphere throughout is decidedly cosy. You can smell the theatre and get jut a riled up about their dramatic behaviour as the detective does. It just feels too much like an episode of Murder She Wrote to me. In fact, I have been raking my brains to remember in which show an episode identical to this was one was featured. I think Murder She Wrote a likely suspect, though in various adaptions this plot has been featured all over.
I just cannot get over the very basic question: why did the murder happen on this very night? Why not delay for a day or two when you have just been entertaining a detective as your VIP quest?
And, of course, you must take the time period into account but really all the flirtations and plain groping are not my taste.
So fun? Yes. A Ngaio Marsh superfan now? No.