- Opening Night (novel)
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Opening Night 
1st editionAuthor(s) Ngaio Marsh Language English Series Roderick Alleyn Genre(s) Detective fiction Publisher Collins Publication date 1951 Media type Print () Preceded by Swing Brother Swing Followed by Spinsters in Jeopardy Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United states as Night at the Vulcan.
The novel is one of the theatrical ones for which Marsh was best known, and concerns the murder of an actor backstage on opening night of a new play in London. The play is being performed at the Vulcan Theatre; it was formerly known as the Jupiter Theatre, renamed after an infamous murder recounted in the Alleyn short story "Murder on the Air".
Martyn Tarne, a young and inexperienced actress from New Zealand, finds herself involved in a play where her own heredity plays a significant role in a minor part. As the understudy for a minor role, Martyn is caught up when Inspector Roderick Alleyn begins investigating the murder he has witnessed.
Roderick Alleyn books by Ngaio Marsh Novels A Man Lay Dead · Enter a Murderer · The Nursing Home Murder · Death in Ecstasy · Vintage Murder · Artists in Crime · Death in a White Tie · Overture to Death · Death at the Bar · Surfeit of Lampreys · Death and the Dancing Footman · Colour Scheme · Died in the Wool · Final Curtain · Swing Brother Swing · Opening Night · Spinsters in Jeopardy · Scales of Justice · Off With His Head · Singing in the Shrouds · False Scent · Hand in Glove · Dead Water · Death at the Dolphin · Clutch of Constables · When in Rome · Tied Up in Tinsel · Black As He's Painted · Last Ditch · Grave Mistake · Photo Finish · Light Thickens ·Categories:- Crime novel stubs
- Roderick Alleyn novels
- 1951 novels
- Novels about actors
- Novels set in London
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