🍾 #VintageMurder is locked room mystery set in a provincial playhouse in New Zealand.
What makes it a masterpiece of the genre is the way that Ngaio Marsh uses her story to make a deeper investigation into the white colonial experience. 🎧 Episode out tomorrow, wherever you listen to podcasts!
The silhouette of a cowled figure with skeletal hands looms over an elderly man lying face down on grass, his cap in his hand. The caption reads: 'THE MYSTERY OF THE MARSH HOLE: 'The Story Of A Crime That Baffled the Police' by A. Sarsfield Ward
A spooky header from the April 1905 edition of Pearson's Magazine, illustrating a mystery story by the author who would later rename himself Sax Rohmer.
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