Death And The Dancing Footman

Ngaio Marsh

Oct 2015 · Inspector Alleyn Book 11 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by James Saxon

About this audiobook

It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre. They would be the characters in a drama that he would devise.

It ended in snowbound disaster. Everyone had an alibi - and most a motive as well. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, when he finally arrived, knew it all hung on Thomas, the dancing footman...

Death and the Dancing Footman was first published in 1942.

Ratings and reviews

The ingredients: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a prodigious snowstorm, and a houseful of eccentrics, one of whom is (of course) dead. It's the standard recipe, as blandly familiar to the reader as Sunday supper. But when Ngaio Marsh adds her own seasoning and blending, this literary meal is pure comfort food.

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was deemed one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s. She was knighted a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966. Ngaio Marsh died in 1982. Death and the Dancing Footman was first published in 1942.