Book Note: Ngaio Marsh, Death at the Bar

This is book 9 of the "Roderick Alleyn" series.

This note contains spoilers for the book.

Interesting to read these; she's close to contemporary with Dorothy Sayers and Rex Stout, and is quite a bit different. (There's also at least one explicit reference to Busman's Honeymoon in either this or the previous one I read). And she applies the same importance to painting and the artistic community that Sayers seems to.

I need to go back and see if she's written about Alleyn's origin story. There seems to be interesting stuff there.

This one centers around a dart board stunt gone tragically wrong -- or cleverly used to cover a murder. A wide range of characters all full of character.