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Singing in the Shrouds (Roderick Alleyn Book 20) (original 1958; edição 2014)

por Ngaio Marsh (Autor)

Séries: Roderick Alleyn (20)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:It's foul play on a freighter: "Enthralling . . .keeps the reader on tenterhooks until the dramatic finale." ??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. The latest of the ladies is currently lying on a fogbound London dock, mute witness to the fact that Inspector Alleyn??long on the strangler's trail??has so far failed to catch his man. A wintertime sailing on a low-rent cargo ship is not Alleyn's idea of a terrific time, but he nevertheless boards the Cape at Portsmouth, determined that no one else is going to get strangled on his watch . . ..
"This is the Classic Puzzle at its purest . . .embellished by literate dialogue and attractive characterization." ??The New Yor
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Título:Singing in the Shrouds (Roderick Alleyn Book 20)
Autores:Ngaio Marsh (Autor)
Informação:Felony & Mayhem Press (2020), 235 pages
Coleções:2023 purchase, Read, Kindle
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Etiquetas:2023, British Mystery

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Alleyn has to discover which member of a ship's passengers is serial killer, if indeed any of them, while undercover and with a ship's captain who doesn't believe the killer is on board. Marsh does an excellent job of describing the characters and growing tension between them. I suspected the guilty party but only as much as I suspected each of the suspects in turn - the denouement was splendid! ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
One of my favorites! Love a good mystery on a cruise, and this was special as it was not a typical Marsh murder plot. ( )
  LeslieHolm | May 19, 2022 |
Summary: Alleyn joins a ship bound for Cape Town seeking a serial murderer, one of nine passengers.

Hmm. This isn’t my idea of a good time. A cruise on a cargo ship with eight other passengers, all strangers. Add to that the possibility of a serial murderer on board, one of those passengers. That’s the scenario Ngaio Marsh has created in this installment of the Roderick Alleyn mysteries.

An eccentric group comes aboard the Cape Farewell, captained by Jasper Bannerman, an old sea dog used to being in charge–perhaps too much so. Mrs. Ruby Dillington-Blick is a widowed socialite, living large in every sense, used to being adored. Fred and Ethel Cuddy are a middle-class, middle-aged couple. Katherine Abbott is a spinster specializing in church music, with large hands and feet! Philip Merryman is a fussy retired schoolmaster. Jemima Carmichael is on the cruise to heal from a broken engagement. Dr. Timothy Makepiece signed on as ship’s doctor to travel to South Africa. Aubyn Dale is an alcoholic TV emcee skating very close to a breakdown. And Mr. Donald McAngus is an elderly, stamp-collecting bachelor.

Just before the ship sailed, a young girl is murdered near the docks. The murder has all the marks of “the Flower Killer,” who strangles the victims with a necklace, found broken, strews flower petals over them, and departs the scene singing. The murderer has killed at ten day intervals. The girl is found just as the Cape Farewell departs. Part of an embarkation notice for the ship is found in her hand.

The suspicion is that the murderer is one of the passengers. They all had been in the vicinity prior to sailing. Alleyn is assigned the case, boarding at Portsmouth, assuming the identity of a shipping company official. He has to investigate without appearing to do so or alarming the passengers. And Bannerman is less than willing to help. He doesn’t believe any of these passengers could be the murderer. But the case is urgent. The next ten day interval will expire while the ship is at sea. There could be another victim.

This is one of my favorites so far. There is a budding love affair between Jemima and the doctor. The doctor and the priest have alibis that check out and become silent partners with Alleyn in watching out for the women. Marsh does well in leaving both red herrings and avoids giving away the murderer. We can’t help but admire Mrs. Dillington-Blick, as do all the men around her. I found myself wondering a bit about the mysterious Katherine Abbott. And I didn’t want anything to happen to Jemima, who struck me as the perfect murder victim. This makes for a great holiday or vacation read! ( )
  BobonBooks | Dec 26, 2021 |
Forced and workmanlike, with her trademark theatrical side pushed far to the background, and a completely unbelievable killer ginned up out of bad psychology texts. Subtracting another star for lax of Fox. ( )
  RJ_Stevenson | Aug 19, 2020 |
Alleyn has to discover which member of a ship's passengers is serial killer, if indeed any of them, while undercover and with a ship's captain who doesn't believe the killer is on board. Marsh does an excellent job of describing the characters and growing tension between them. I suspected the guilty party but only as much as I suspected each of the suspects in turn - the denouement was splendid! ( )
  leslie.98 | Sep 24, 2019 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:It's foul play on a freighter: "Enthralling . . .keeps the reader on tenterhooks until the dramatic finale." ??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. The latest of the ladies is currently lying on a fogbound London dock, mute witness to the fact that Inspector Alleyn??long on the strangler's trail??has so far failed to catch his man. A wintertime sailing on a low-rent cargo ship is not Alleyn's idea of a terrific time, but he nevertheless boards the Cape at Portsmouth, determined that no one else is going to get strangled on his watch . . ..
"This is the Classic Puzzle at its purest . . .embellished by literate dialogue and attractive characterization." ??The New Yor

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