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    Grave Mistake (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    By Ngaio Marsh

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 7, 2010
    ISBN9780007344857
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    Grave Mistake (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
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    Ngaio Marsh

    Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.

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    • 4/5
      I'm enjoying the later Marshes more and more and this is no exception. Particularly enjoyable for the characters, the murder is of almost secondary importance as the story moves between the older single playwright, her hypochondriac friend, her god-daughter, her god-daughter's Greek oil tycoon heir fiance, his charming father, the too good to be true gardener, the dubious stepson and the salt of the earth daily cleaning lady. Alleyn and Fox put in an appearance after the inevitable murder but the real story is the interplay of these characters as they come to terms with the changing world of 1970s Britain. Good fun.
    • 4/5
      1978, Inspector Alleyn, small village and upper crust-y society; cosy police procedural, classic. Story wonderful, narration poor.

      When a spoiled and self-indulgent middle-aged woman suddenly dies at a posh “rest hotel”, the initial verdict appears to be suicide. But her many friends swear it was most unlike her, and Alleyn and Fox aren’t comfortable with the case either.

      Nifty little time-capsule of a story that although set in early 1970s seemed to fit far better in the early 1950s, with its tightly structured social strata and its attitudes towards women. Yet this is a superbly crafted “village cosy”, complete with a long, leisured set-up, complicated unraveling, and careful denouement.


      For this reread I listened to
      1986, Chivers Audio Books, read by Jane Asher

      Asher’s narration was extremely annoying, progressing to downright aggravating by the end. Her use of European accents was abominable, and a definite problem, as one of the major characters is supposedly Swiss in origin; she couldn’t make up her mind whether he had a French or a German accent, and every now and then threw in what appeared to be some sort of Balkan just for contrast.

      And we won’t mention The Greek Millionaire’s accent, which was sometimes Italian, sometimes almost Greek, often also Balkan. And she’d slide accents around, not keeping the lines clear as to which character was speaking at any given time. aggggh. Never going to listen to Asher again if I can help it!! Think she’s been “fair” on some other reads I've listened to, but on this one with its multitude of foreign accents? Terrible.
    • 3/5
      England, ca 1978.En privatklinik er rammen for et mistænkeligt dødsfald. Sybil Foster er en ældre dame, der dør med en pæn dosis barbituratpiller i maven og munden. Hendes datter Prunella Foster finder til sin rædsel at moderen har skrevet testamente, hvor datteren arver, men kun hvis hun gifter sig med Lord Swingletree, der er mere Mr. Kedelig end Prins Charming. Prunella vil hellere have Gideon Markos, søn af Nikolas Markos, der er rig og synes bedre om Quintern Place end om Mardling Manor, hvor han bor nu. Sybil havde forlovet sig med en Dr. Basil Schramm, der er noget af en fupmager.Sybil's første mand Maurice Carter havde et supersjældent frimærke, Det sorte Alexander, men det forsvandt samme dag, som han selv blev dræbt i et troppetransporttog. Roderick Alleyn - gift med maleren Troy - og Fox dykker ned i sagen.Sybil's gartner, Bruce Gardener, har været oppasser for hendes første mand, hvilket ikke rigtigt var gået op for nogen, før Alleyn begyndte at bore i fortiden. Sybil har også en stedsøn Claude Carter, der er noget af uduelig døgenigt.Alleyn finder spor efter at Sybil blev kvalt, så sagen efterforskes som drab.Efter at Sybil er blevet begravet, foranstalter Alleyn en genopgravning af kisten og under denne finder man endnu en grav, indeholdende liget af Claude, der er blevet næsten halshugget bagfra.Morderen viser sig at være Bruce, som har gjort det for at arve et lille hus og en lille sum penge og er bange for at Schramm vil smide ham på porten, hvis han får chancen. Bruce har også ledt hus og have igennem for at finde frimærket og bliver splittertosset, da det går op for ham at frimærket lå i brystlommen på Claude, som han selv har begravet.Den danske oversættelse er ikke ret god. En boghandel "Good reads" bliver fx oversat til "God læsning" i stedet for "Gode bøger". Historien er også lidt ulden, for det er fx mærkeligt at politiet i lang tid overser at Sybil er blevet kvalt med en pude. Men moralen af historien må være at man aldrig må fortælle folk at man har tænkt sig at testamentere dem noget, for så risikerer man at blive slået ihjel.Nogle af dialogerne mellem Fox og Alleyn er dog ret sjove.
    • 4/5
      This was my first exposure to the Inspector Roderick Alleyn mysteries, and friends have told me that it probably wasn't the best one to read "first" (as it is near the end of the 30+ book series). Honestly, however, I enjoyed it. It's quite slow to get into at first, with perhaps too many characters introduced in the first few chapters. But, once the "murder" occurs, I got sucked into the story and the character interactions. Alleyn himself doesn't appear as fully developed as some of the "guest" characters, but that allowed the rest of the cast to shine.Although I figured out parts of the "mystery" before the big reveal at the end, I was reading this one mainly for the atmosphere and the interesting characters. Ultimately, I found this one to be quite entertaining, and will certainly track down more Ngaio Marsh when the opportunity presents itself.
    • 4/5
      It's been interesting to read this series in order. Her later books have more modern dialogue and the main characters are more relaxed with each other. This book finds Alleyn and company doing what they do best, poking around in a murder in a small village. The conversations between Alleyn and Fox are what I enjoy the most and are at their best in this book. Everything is satisfactorily resolved, well, almost everything. I like it when the best not so good people don't reward for the misdoings and that doesn't happen here. It's probably a better reflection of real life though.