Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Fool. 1957
Ljudbok (6 CD, Lovisa stadsbibba)
Set in the freezing, snowbound Winter of a small English village based on the Kent village of Birling, the plot concerns the annual performance in the courtyard of the local crumbling castle of an historic folkloric ritual. Marsh is clearly fascinated by the idea, that ”The Dance of the Five Sons” during which the murder is committed) is a folkloric blueprint or ur-text for Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play Marsh greatly admired and herself directed in New Zealand in 1956. It’s a ”classic puzzle whodunit” form of which Ngaio Marsh was so outstanding.