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Last Ditch
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. And when Ricky himself disappears, the case becomes a horse of a different color for his father, Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ricky Alleyn gets involved in a case with his dad
- De Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe en 05-15-18
- Last Ditch
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Nadia May
Fun if not totally satisfying
Revisado: 03-24-21
Great narration, and delightful to meet Ricky as an adult. The actual murder is resolved way too simply at the end— cheating is definitely arguable, though a it’s good enough twist I guess, but there’s plenty of other non-murderous mystery to be untangled, and a bit more adventure than the usual Marsh mysteries.
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Grave Mistake
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Jane Asher
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday.... A bit snobbish and a trifle high strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director...and an apparent suicide. Her autopsy holds one surprise, a secret drawer a second.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story marred by narrator's choices
- De birdwatchers rule en 04-08-17
- Grave Mistake
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Jane Asher
Not as tidy as most of Marsh’s stories, mixed performance
Revisado: 03-16-21
Performance: With others, I give this a mixed performance review. The reader’s voice is lovely and clear for most of the narration, and her rendering of female characters is pitch-perfect. Oddly, the male characters, including Alleyn, are almost universally grating. The accents are cloying, and Alleyn’s voice is pitched high and almost nasal. Any character with an accent (and there are several) sounds cloying and artificial, though with one character in particular (Gardener) this is totally intentional. The other two “foreign” characters, Markos (as I picture it spelled) and Schramm are almost lost in their renderings. The accents for both these characters deplete their written nuance, especially as they are both meant to be intelligent and plausible.
Story: ***Some spoilers***
I can’t decide if certain parts of this story are poor editing, red herrings, or atmospheric window dressing. If they are red herrings it’s unlike Alleyn not to say so, though he does comment on the gothic atmosphere near the end. A corpse at the beginning of the story is never revisited. The bizarre manner of his death stages it up as the primary mystery but instead he is quietly laid to rest without much of a murmur. Another very minor character is recently widowed, and only at the end of the story do we wonder if her husband’s death was homicide. The same character is in a dubious car accident and again, we wonder if it really *was* an accident, or if the killer, revealed as usual at the end, had some design in orchestrating her demise in order to make themselves more secure. But straightaway the author clarifies that the driver of the car who hit her helped her up and saw her to safety. So which is it? And why add this bit without comment from Alleyn?
Finally, in the story we are told a nurse finds the primary victim and goes to find a doctor, but in the rest of the story it is maintained that the doctor found the victim. This issue is kind of revisited in the end but not very satisfactorily. It feels mistaken.
In all, not one of Marsh’s tidiest.
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A Wreath for Rivera
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter Felicite. So when a bit of strange business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't worry About "Alleyn's" pronunciation
- De Sally A. Jackson en 03-31-22
- A Wreath for Rivera
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Nadia May
Good characters, narration, and plot
Revisado: 03-09-21
I enjoy Nadia May’s narrations of Marsh’s books. At times in this recording you can tell her voice is weary or dry; I did not find this to be distracting to the story.
Like many other of Marsh’s stories, the plot involves a likable romance, a drug racket, and a performance of some kind. However, there are fresh characters- an eccentric lord who develops a passion for percussion and joins a jazz ensemble; a debutante, her dubious accordion-playing fiancé, a reporter who isn’t Nigel Bathgate (though he comes in near the end), and a mysterious advice columnist. I was frustrated that one of the major plot-lines is resolved entirely off-stage.
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