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    When in Rome
    Audiobook7 hours

    When in Rome

    Written by Ngaio Marsh

    Narrated by Nadia May

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    Sebastian Mailer and his Il Cicerone Conducted Tours promised an expedition that would be “most unconventional,” and it delivered—all sorts of new activities and surprises like murder, blackmail, and drug running. It is up to Superintendent Roderick Alleyn to sort it all out.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Audio
    Release dateJun 17, 2005
    ISBN9780786111435
    Author

    Ngaio Marsh

    Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.

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    • 3/5
      One of her better later works!
    • 3/5
      While I liked the Italian setting, the mystery itself was not one of Marsh's best. And some of the slang really dates the book!
    • 3/5
      When in Rome, as the title suggests, is another mystery set away from Alleyn's home turf - which means that Alleyn yet again has to work with a foreign police force rather than his old friends. Alleyn is not on holiday; he's in Rome to investigate a drugs smuggling case, and it is some time before a corpse turns up.But the absence of a corpse doesn't mean there's no mystery. Instead, there are a lot of little interconnected mysteries surrounding Sebastian Mailer and his connections to the tourists he has persuaded in joining an expensive day tour.Alleyn doesn't get to spend as much time interviewing people as he sometimes does, but that's okay; When in Rome is a satisfying, atmospheric mystery.Also, one of the POV characters, Sophy reminded me just a bit of M.M. Kaye's heroines. She's a young woman travelling in a foreign country; she's sensible and likeable. And another of the POV characters is a novelist, which allows for Marsh to comment on a field she would have known a lot about.