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Title: Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0-312-97084-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Colorful and Entertaining
Comment: Unlike most of Marsh's Inspector Allen novels, A Clutch of Constables focuses primarily on his celebrated artist wife Troy, who has taken a spur of the moment river cruise only to find herself increasingly disturbed by mysterious goings-on during the voyage. Instead of damaging the story, the shift in focus to Troy makes for a refreshing change, and like most Marsh novels A CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES abounds with colorful, finely drawn characters and considerable atmosphere. Readers will quickly identify the nature of the criminal plot, but they will not be quite as quick to identify the ring-leader. A very entertaining read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read!
Comment: An interesting mystery that features a cast of characters all of which seem both innocent and slilgtly off-kilter at the same time. The seedier the character the less you suspect them, the more charming the character the more you suspet them.
Action takes place during a cruise along an unnamed river in England. Chief Inspector Alleyn's (Marsh's hero for those new to her books) wife has center stage as she is at the center of events as murder(?) strikes within the confined space of the riverboat. Are her suspicions correct or just the result of over-wrought nerves? You be the judge.
Marsh seems to play the psychological angle here as the tension is expertly increased with the result of at least one moment of genuine horror.
A good read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not the best, but still a good way to pass time
Comment: The format of this Marsh mystery differed a bit, in that it cut back and forth between Inspector Alleyn teaching a class and the case that he actually uses as an example, which incidentally, involves his wife Troy. Troy decides to take a breather after her London art show and sees that there is a last minute cancellation on a mini-cruise. She signs up for it, and realizes, shortly into the trip, that she may be on bored with a famous international criminal - one wanted for murder. But which one of her fellow passengers is "The Jampot"? Alleyn himself is in the States on business, so a good deal of the information is first learned through Troy's letters to him (an interesting change, since we usually see Alleyn's letters to Troy). But as he becomes more and more alarmed by her reports, he returns to try and catch the Jampot before yet another murder is committed.
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Title: Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0312970102 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Tied Up In Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0312971958 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0312973012 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: False Scent by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0312968981 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh ISBN: 0312973144 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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