But her reputation was not advanced by LIGHT THICKENS. Published in , it was her last novel, and her powers were clearly waning. Although her novels were extremely successful, Marsh seems to have regarded herself as more of a fine and performing artist—she had studied art and worked in professional theatre, and she continued in the later throughout her writing career/5(60). Light Thickens; By: Ngaio Marsh; Narrated by: Philip Franks; Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 32 Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins. But her reputation was not advanced by LIGHT THICKENS. Published in , it was her last novel, and her powers were clearly waning. Although her novels were extremely successful, Marsh seems to have regarded herself as more of a fine and performing artist—she had studied art and worked in professional theatre, and she continued in the later throughout her writing career/5().
Ngaio Marsh Books. Tied Up in Tinsel () Tied Up in Tinsel. Ngaio Marsh. Classics, Mystery, Suspense. Inspector Alleyn () Light Thickens () Light Thickens. Ngaio Marsh. Mystery. Inspector Alleyn (). Photo-Finish / Light Thickens / Black Beech and Honeydew. by. Ngaio Marsh. · Rating details · 70 ratings · 4 reviews. Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the final volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of. Dame Ngaio Marsh was an actress, playwright, and theatre producer, now best known for her mystery novels. This murder mystery features Peregrine Jay, a theatre producer at London's Dolphin Theatre. Light Thickens was Marsh's last book, published posthumously. The murder in the book takes place during a production of Macbeth.
Here and there Marsh does succeed in capturing character, setting, and mood in her memorable way, but this is not a consistent factor in the novel, and in truth it may be that Marsh wrote one novel too many. She is a great artist, but LIGHT THICKENS does not show her at her best. GFT, Amazon Reviewer. Read more. Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in The plot concerns the murder of the lead actor in a production of Macbeth in London, and the novel takes its title from a line in the play. A number of characters in the book appeared previously in Marsh's novel Death at the Dolphin. Light Thickens; By: Ngaio Marsh; Narrated by: Philip Franks; Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 32 Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins.
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