Overture to Death (Abridged) Audiobook

" Written in 1939, therefore dated but still good. "

" An old-fashioned English murder mystery. Enjoyable. "

" It's a good book. Marsh is one of my favorite writers. She's always so enjoyable. Here she's hit the point where she is more novel than genre. She plays honest. You guess the killer about 100 pages from the end. She should have cut more out of the last 50 pages. "

" Wow, I am so impressed with Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. This book is well written and very interesting. The story is well established. The characters are well established and there is actually a raport with them. "

" I liked this one the best so far; Rory Alleyn seems to have finally hit his stride, or maybe I'm just getting used to him. Loved the description of the piano music and the spinsters. "

" Alleyn is always a treat, though this features one of those hysterical spinsters that occasionally inhabit her books. She always did have a taste for the grotesque (remember how the man was killed in A Surfeit of Lampreys, one of my favorites??). "

" My first experience w/ Marsh and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great character development and atmospheric scene setting. "

" Scheming spinsters fighting over the vicar. "

" A classic from the Golden Age of British cozy mysteries. "

" Ngaio Marsh loves killing people off as part of a performance in full view of an audience. This is another of those plots, with a fairly clever murder mechanism. As usual, the characters and build up to the murder are the best part. "

" I enjoyed the way this book allows the reader a glimpse of an earlier age. "

" I really enjoyed this audiobook, though the ending was a little predictable once you got into the meat of the mystery. For Agatha Christie fans, this is a great contemporary of the Grand Dame of the Mystery Genre! That's all I'm gonna say in order to avoid spoilers. "

" The murderer was obvious halfway through the book, but Marsh's deft writing kept me interested. "

" A standard enjoyable Ngaio Marsh read, but unfortunately the mystery isn't very hard to solve and I knew who dunnit from very early in. "

" I love this series, they're really interesting and a fairly light quick read "

" This kept me guessing until the last as I kept changing my mind about the guilty party "

" I listened to both the Abridged and Unabridged versions of this from Audible. The narrator for the Unabridged was less "

" I enjoyed this book. I figured out who the murderer was pretty early on but I could not figure how the deed was done. It kept me wondering, guessing and playing along even though I knew (or was pretty sure I knew). "

" This kept me guessing until the last as I kept changing my mind about the guilty party "

" I really enjoyed this one. The murder method is a hoot "

" Alleyn is always a treat, though this features one of those hysterical spinsters that occasionally inhabit her books. She always did have a taste for the grotesque (remember how the man was killed in A Surfeit of Lampreys, one of my favorites??). "

" Brilliant. Who doesn't love a booby-trapped piano? "

" Written in 1939, therefore dated but still good. "

" It's a good book. Marsh is one of my favorite writers. She's always so enjoyable. Here she's hit the point where she is more novel than genre. She plays honest. You guess the killer about 100 pages from the end. She should have cut more out of the last 50 pages. "

" 8th in series, first published in 1939 Fun to read, not deep, but good for a rainy afternoon with tea and scones. "

" Ngaio Marsh loves killing people off as part of a performance in full view of an audience. This is another of those plots, with a fairly clever murder mechanism. As usual, the characters and build up to the murder are the best part. "

" The murderer was obvious halfway through the book, but Marsh's deft writing kept me interested. "

" I enjoyed this book. I figured out who the murderer was pretty early on but I could not figure how the deed was done. It kept me wondering, guessing and playing along even though I knew (or was pretty sure I knew). "

" A classic from the Golden Age of British cozy mysteries. "

" An old-fashioned English murder mystery. Enjoyable. "

" Scheming spinsters fighting over the vicar. "