Customer Reviews

Night at the Vulcan/opening night - By: Antony F. Potter, 06 Aug 2008
This book confirms Ms. Marshin the topflight of the genre. We follow the beautifully detailed & knowledgeably described course of a new play from dress rehearsal to the opening night. The cast is a richly & sympathetically imagined group & into this mixture enters a breathless ingenue who has the classical dream that "next day on your dressing room they hang a star"!. Sounds like a cliche? Well yes okay but what is a cliche but a much told truth? And here it is told with mouthwatering skill. Oh & by the way there is a very satisfactory murder,each member of the cast has a motive & Supt Alleyn has the job of disentangling them. This is a book to read & re reread. You will stick the pages with sellotape as they fall out with too many uses. You will perhaps not be suprised to hear that I love this book. Its up there with Caroline Graham's "Death of a hollow man", which it slightly resembles.

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Opening Night - By: Marcus, 08 Mar 2008
This is one of Ngaio Marsh's best, & that means it is very good, but beware that "Night at the Vulcan" is the American title. In the UK it has always been published as "Opening Night".