A review by julia_may
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

2.0

This was just okay. This is one of her theatre based novels so there's a lot of theatrical jargon and technical information about the backstage operations. Honestly, I did not enjoy it. This edition was also lacking the map of the theatre, making it even harder to follow who went where when. I also felt like there were too many characters for a locked room style of mystery, some of them too similar to each other, in the "disreputable young man* category. On the positive side, I didn't guess who did it and there was so much variety with the characters that none annoyed me.

What I really didn't appreciate was all the references to Maoris as "savages". In this regard, the book really hasn't aged well.

Edit: the more I think about this book, the less I like it. Downgraded to 2 stars.