β Scribed by Ngaio Marsh
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In her spare time, when not busy writing mysteries, Ngaio Marsh was a successful theatrical producer, and the mysteries she wrote with theatrical settings are some of her best, Night at the Vulcan among them. A shabby, fourth-rate theater, the Vulcan is not where Martyn Tarne hoped to work, when she moved from New Zealand to London in hope of a glittering acting career. But a girl has to eat, so Martyn takes a job as dresser to the Vulcan's leading lady. This provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus β the aging alcoholic actor, the waspish playwright, the ingΓ©nue on the make, the surprisingly gracious grande dame. There is, of course, a murder, and Inspector Alleyn to inject a welcome pragmatism, but Vulcan's greatest pleasure lies in the artful, bittersweet portraits of the theatrical "types" that Marsh knew so well.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
SUMMARY: A London actor was dying for a star billing...From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on openin
On some nights, a snug bedroom is a hard place to fall asleep. On some nights, it's better to get away from slumbering, snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air, under wide-open skies. In this charming bedtime fantasy, a sleepless city girl does just that, f
Unexpected love--plus passion, intrigue, and danger--challenge our hero to embrace his true nature. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET, a riveting blend of Regency-era high seas adventure, a mystery shrouded in the heat of tropical jungles, and
Elena Ferrante returns to a story that animated the novel she considers to be a turning point in her development as a a writer: *The Lost Daughter*. But this time the tale takes the form of a children's fable told from the point of view of the lost (stolen!) doll, Celina. Celina is having a terrible
**An emotionally charged debut novel of a family on the brink --an autistic child, his determined mother, and her distant father--who learn that when your world changes, you find out who you really are. . . .** While she was growing up, Piper's father, Lance "the Silver Eagle" Whitman, became a na