Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh

Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh ISBN-13: 9780312966706 Mass Market Paperback: 245 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Press Released: 1935; December 1998

Source: Borrowed from the library.

Book Description from Goodreads:
The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, dead--with a gun Arthur himself loaded with blanks. Or did he? How the live bullets got there, and why, make for a convoluted case that pits Inspector Roderick Alleyn against someone who rates an Oscar for a murderously clever performance.


My Review:
Enter A Murderer is a mystery set in England in 1935. It's the second book in a series, but it can be read as a stand alone.

This was a clue-based puzzle mystery. I felt certain of whodunit (as in, who put the live bullets in the gun) at the two-thirds point of the book. However, I wasn't certain about some aspects of the crime until nearly the end. So the clue pacing was pretty good. The characters were interesting but not very fleshed out.

There was no sex. There was a fair amount of bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this novel to puzzle-mystery lovers.


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