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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
There's nothing like a classic. I recently read my first Ngaio Marsh novel, the second of the Roderick Alleyn tales, Enter A Murderer. Somehow I've never managed to see even the PBS/Brit TV episodes. In this 1935 adventure, Inspector Allen and his sidekick journalist Nigel Bathgate are the scene of a murder that takes place, literally, on stage to a packed house. The dialogue is delicious and the twists-and-turns great fun. Marsh had a solid bead on theatrical people and conjures them up in a delightful manner. Her style is also a reminder of how British mystery writers -- from Agatha Christie to Ian Rankin -- often add a special "readability" ingredient: the way one word follows another reflects an intelligence and "groundedness" not often found elsewhere outside of so-called "literary fiction".
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Ngaio Marsh books are still great today, and there are also excellent Audible.com versions of them.
For fans of higher suspense novels, such as those of
Michael Connelly and
Robert B. Parker, let me suggest the Jane Whitefield novels of
Thomas Perry. My wife and I just discovered them and are reading our way through them. But we have a rule - you can't start one until you have a day free when you can read it, cause otherwise work is NOT going to get done. Once you start...