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Name: Night at the Vulcan

Also published as: Opening Night

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Year: 1951
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Mystery, Detective

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ISBNs:
9780312966683
0312966687

Newly arrived from New Zealand and in need of funds, Martyn Tarne takes a job as a dresser to the Vulcan theater's leading lady. This provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus and the eventual murder that occurs on opening night. Inspector Alleyn is soon called to solve the murder and inject a needed dose of pragmatism, but the novel's greatest pleasure lies in the characterizations of the theatrical 'types' Ngaio Marsh knew so well.

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