AuthorNgaio Marsh
NarratorJeremy Clyde
Duration1h 53m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Cosy Crime
PublisherBBC
VersionUnabridged
Two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh short stories. In 'Opening Night', a leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room. It looks like suicide, until it transpires that he was widely detested. Inspector Alleyn quickly realises that almost everyone in the theatre had a motive for his murder. 'When In Rome' finds Inspector Alleyn joining a group of highly suspicious tourists on a visit to a Roman catacomb. The corpse he finds in an ancient sarcophagus has been very recently murdered...
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 10h 18m
It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 8h 37m
The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Rode...
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 9h 5m
When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at the village of Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing there, she quickly antagonises the villagers. But she is not the only source of friction - when the sword dancer's traditional mock beheading becomes horribly real, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself faced with a case of great compl...
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 5h 18m
To amuse his house guests, Sir Hubert Handelsley devises a new form of murder game. But when the lights go up there is a real corpse, with a real dagger in its back. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to try and find the murderer.
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Roderick Alleyn Book 8: Overture To Death
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Wanda Mccaddon
SeriesRoderick Alleyn, Book 8
Duration 9h 32m
It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out, and Miss Campanula was dead. Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them...
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 7h 19m
Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene. Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience.
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 7h 40m
The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Rode...
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 6h 46m
Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective...
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Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Philip Franks
Duration 8h 11m
Called in to help with security arrangements for a presidential reception at a London embassy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn ensures the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin strikes, and Alleyn finds no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court - and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett.
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Author: Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy
Author Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy
Narrator Stella Duffy
Duration 8h 21m
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy. It's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lonely Canterbury plains. But when his car breaks down, he is stranded for t...
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