Benedict Cumberbatch - Death in a White Tie - Ngaio Marsh - Audiobook 1

Ngaio Marsh - Benedict Cumberbatch - Death in a White Tie - Audiobook 1 / 2 - Dark Screen for Sleep
Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh, also known as Ngaio Marsh, (April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982) was a famous New Zealand writer who created many mystery novels with Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard as the main character. In some of her later books, his wife Troy also appeared.
Marsh was a painter, an actress, and a theatre producer in her native country before she moved to England in 1928. There, she published her first book, A Man Lay Dead (1934), which introduced Inspector Alleyn to the readers. She came back to New Zealand in 1933 and continued writing more novels. She also staged and directed many Shakespearean plays. She was one of the founders of a theatre guild in 1944 that became a vital part of New Zealand’s culture. Marsh kept producing plays both in New Zealand and overseas, mainly in England, for the rest of her life.
Marsh contributed to the development of the detective genre in the 1930s by writing books that combined a refined literary style with realistic characters and settings. Many of her novels, which numbered more than 30, were set in the world of art and theatre, where she had personal experience. Some of these novels were Artists in Crime (1938), Final Curtain (1947), and Opening Night (1951), which all featured Inspector Alleyn. Along with other books such as Overture to Death (1939), A Surfeit of Lampreys (1941), Death of a Fool (1956), Dead Water (1963), Black as He’s Painted (1974), and Light Thickens (1982), they are considered classic examples of the conventional detective story, offering readers a smartly crafted mystery with vivid characters and a believable backdrop. Marsh also wrote about her homeland and the theatre.
Benedict Cumberbatch is an English actor who was born on 19 July 1976. He has a Master of Arts in classical acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and started his career in Shakespearean theatre. He made his West End debut in 2005 in Hedda Gabler, directed by Richard Eyre. He has also performed in several Royal National Theatre productions, such as After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011), for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in 2015.

[@katyvdb5993]

Thank you very much for alerting me. I shall go in and listen. I think I have an (inherited) copy of 'Hand in Glove'. I have certainly read it at some point. But 'Colour Scheme' is new to me.

[@katyvdb5993]

To my chagrin, the excellent reading you had uploaded of Ngaio Marsh's 'Colour Scheme' has vanished altogether. I was only partway through the third section 😔. Is there any hope that it might return to KZbin? In the meantime, I shall listen to 'Death in White Tie', an old favourite of mine.

[@michelleduplooymalherbe2837]

@rosemaryward677 WHAT A PITY - THINK I MUST DOWNLOAD WHAT IS LEFT BEFORE THEY ALSO DISSAPEAR.....

[@michelleduplooymalherbe2837]

I CAN HIGHLY RECCOMEND THIS NARRATOR - WHAT JOY TO LISTEN TO AFTER LISTENING ALL THE RUBBISH THAT IS OUT THERE - WHEN YOU LISTEN TO BENEDICT YOU WONDER HOW OTHER PEOPLE DARE CALL THEMSELVES NARRATORS

[@dntodo6749]

And *what* a relief to find a narrator who is able to represent women as individual persons, with entirely distinct characters, characteristics and attitudes from one another. I do get sick of male narrators for whom all female characters are one from a limited set of cardboard cut-outs. Other really great narrators - Jonathan Cecil and Sean Barrett. All very different from each other, too.

[@knicklas48]

Mr. Bandersnatch. Creepy.