NGAIO MARSH
Ngaio Marsh Volume 6

COPYRIGHT

These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Opening Night first published in Great Britain by Collins 1951 Spinsters in Jeopardy first published in Great Britain by Collins 1953 Scales of Justice first published in Great Britain by Collins 1955 The Hand in the Sand in Death on the Air and Other Stories published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1951, 1953, 1955

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Opening Night

Spinsters in Jeopardy

Scales of Justice

BONUS STORY: The Hand in the Sand

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

Opening Night

DEDICATION

To The Management and Company of The New Zealand Student Players of 1949 in love and gratitude

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Cast of Characters

1. Martyn at the Vulcan

2. In a Glass Darkly

3. First Dress-Rehearsal

4. Second Dress-Rehearsal

5. Opening Night

6. Performance

7. Disaster

8. After-Piece

9. The Shadow of Otto Brod

10. Summing Up

11. Last Act

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