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Gets to be a bit much

Revisado: 11-16-20

I enjoyed this for the first couple of hours, but at some point the stories all started to sound the same.

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One of my favorites from Ngaio Marsh

Revisado: 11-04-20

For fans of this genre, this is a refreshing and novel take, set in Marsh‘s New Zealand homeland. The cast of characters is extraordinarily broad—in turns naive, jaded, wily, bumbling, genteelly poor, obliviously rich, and everything in between. Rather than turning into a confusing hodgepodge, the characters are well-differentiated, three-dimensional and seem to fit likes the gears of a machine into their little world. The presence of each is believable and serves a purpose.

The story gives ample evidence of Marsh‘s love for her native country, as well as her understanding of the complexities of its colonial history. She illustrates, but never preaches.

The mystery in itself is a good one, with suspects aplenty and a unique (and horrifying, but not gory) cause of death.

Nadia May is, as always, an excellent narrator and manages the accents quite well, in my opinion. I also like now she narrates men—that is to say, without trying to go into some toad-like baritone.

I’ve listened to this one three times over the last 10 years or so and enjoy it every time.

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Aren’t there any British narrators?

Revisado: 10-05-20

The story is a typical cosy mystery (nice), but I found the narrator’s constant mispronunciations and *terrible* regional accents really distracting. Her characterization and pacing were otherwise good, so the mispronunciations were a real shame.

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Definitely “of it’s time”

Revisado: 10-03-20

The stories are well-constructed and the mysteries mostly very satisfying, but there are many, many parts that are shockingly, disgustingly racist. Chesterton saw people of other races as subhuman and inherently evil. If you are a fan of the Father Brown tv series (as I am), then it may be worth a listen for the interest in hearing the original, but thank heaven the tv series is far removed from Chesterton’s ideology.

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