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Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States as Night at the Vulcan .
- Ngaio Marsh
- 1951
Opening Night (aka Night at the Vulcan; 1951) finds Ngaio Marsh returning to the world of theatre--comfortable home turf for an author who claimed the theatre as her first passion. This time Marsh focuses on the back-stage antics going on as the players at the Vulcan Theater prepare for the opening of a new play by a brilliant, but difficult ...
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25. Apr. 2024 · Opening Night (also published as Night at the Vulcan) is the sixteenth book in Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn series and like many of her novels has a theatrical setting, which makes it perfect for Reading the Theatre, hosted this month by Lory of Entering the Enchanted Castle.
Opening Night | Marsh, Ngaio, Lesser, Anton | ISBN: 9781405507455 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
1. Okt. 2009 · Martyn Tarne, an ingénue desperate for a job in a theater, takes a job as a last-minute replacement for the leading lady’s dresser at the Vulcan theater. A new play by a famous author is being staged. Tensions are high as opening night approaches. As the curtain falls after the last act, a particularly obnoxious member of the cast ...
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To Martyn the night brought a strange turn of the wheel of fortune - but to one distinguished member of the cast it was to bring sudden and unforeseen death... Other editions - View all Opening...
It takes great skill to craft the perfect opening to a novel, and doing so is one of the hallmarks of a brilliant writer. A bad opening line can be the downfall of a writer, too – thanks to his famously terrible opening to Paul Clifford , ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’, Edward Bulwer-Lytton now has a fiction contest for terrible ...
