Vintage Murder

Vintage Murder
Ngaio Marsh

A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novelsNew Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife's birthday - a jeroboam of champagne descending gently onto the stage after the performance. But, as Roderick Alleyn witnesses, something goes horribly wrong. Is the death the product of Maori superstitions - or something more down to earth?

NGAIO MARSH

VINTAGE MURDER

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Vintage Murder First published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1937

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Source ISBN: 9780006512554

Ebook Edition © MAY 2013 ISBN: 9780007344420

Version: 2016-08-18

DEDICATION (#ulink_7438c5bc-79bc-5ada-b56c-75ba6324b7c3)

For Allan Wilkie andFrediswyde Hunter-WattsIn memory of a tour in New Zealand

CONTENTS

Cover (#u4d64bc49-563b-57fc-80e2-11e294dd692f)

Title Page (#u5a40377d-e823-5467-b546-72b576dbbdd9)

Copyright (#u4c0b453a-560e-5fa8-962a-2f9dd71f80ea)

Dedication (#u3af8ae68-4767-527c-9b2b-80350b85ff34)

Cast of Characters (#ud2fb546d-60c4-55f4-b877-9a740764ed6d)

Foreword (#uf819645a-b168-528d-8bb9-b70a644d7399)

1. Prologue in a Train (#uc81c47ef-d10e-5a77-b330-c57323225ffc)

2. Mr Meyer in Jeopardy (#ua9adda3c-7398-51d9-9e1f-92c359e4216d)

3. Off-stage (#ubf98c432-dd3b-5136-bb19-bd4ed4de8b6b)

4. First Appearance of the Tiki (#ua9b294ff-67ee-55d4-8f60-eefcf52af7b4)

5. Intermezzo (#ucdc4251e-3afb-550b-b866-9a89ed990874)

6. Second Appearance of the Tiki (#u91937310-b522-5358-b3c4-e8d708da12bb)

7. Wardrobe-room Muster (#litres_trial_promo)

8. Money (#litres_trial_promo)

9. Courtney Broadhead’s Scene (#litres_trial_promo)

10. The Case is Wide Open (#litres_trial_promo)

11. St John Ackroyd and Susan Max (#litres_trial_promo)

12. Liversidge Fluffs his Lines (#litres_trial_promo)

13. Miss Gaynes goes Up-stage (#litres_trial_promo)

14. Variation on a Police Whistle (#litres_trial_promo)

15. Six a.m. First Act Curtain (#litres_trial_promo)

16. Entr’acte (#litres_trial_promo)

17. Change of Scene (#litres_trial_promo)

18. Duologue (#litres_trial_promo)

19. Carolyn Moves Centre (#litres_trial_promo)

20. Exit Liversidge. Enter Bob Parsons (whistling) (#litres_trial_promo)

21. Business with Props (#litres_trial_promo)

22. Fourth Appearance of the Tiki (#litres_trial_promo)

23. Alleyn as Maskelyne (#litres_trial_promo)

24. Dr Te Pokiha Plays to Type. Warn Curtain (#litres_trial_promo)