Overture to Death


Marsh, Ngaio - Overture to Death (1939)

 

 

Review by Nick Fuller

5/5

Her masterpiece. The murder by exploding piano is splendid; the plot and timetable complex; and the characterisation superb, especially of middle-aged lovelorn females. The murderer can be spotted before the end — but what a murderer! The solution is brilliantly clued, and the reader will want to kick himself when he guesses the truth about the onion.