"Nadia May's British accent and soprano voice perfectly capture
Marsh's narrative. Her portrayal of the bizarre cast of characters is superb."
AudioFile

Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been
warned about the famed old Shakespearean actorand his eccentric household.
But she was not prepared for their acts of malice and mischief.

Now Sir Henry was dead, after a large and lethal birthday dinner of champagne
and crayfishand after changing his will in favor of his glamorous young fiance.
And Troy was suddenly star witness in one of her husbands most sensational
cases to determine which of the flamboyant characters brought down the final
curtain, and turned a drawing room farce into tragedy.

Anyone who has read a Ngaio Marsh mystery is likely to agree with New York
Magazines Dilys Winn who said, Its time to compare Christie to Marsh
instead of the other way around.

Ngaio Marsh, a native New Zealander whose name means "flowering tree" in Maori, was a detective story writer and theatrical producer. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her classic mysteries. The continuing popularity of her hero, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, has assured her a lasting place among the world's top mystery authors.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.