I found this to be an enjoyable story very much in the vein of the golden age of detective fiction. I found the choice to make Bertie openly gay to the reader, if not to most of the characters, a refreshing choice that added a dynamic that was not openly explored in the 30s and 40s. 

The story was well rooted in it's time and location, as well as in the world of theatre. As someone who doesn't know a lot about the mechanics of theatre, I found this element very interesting. It reminded me a lot of Ngaio Marsh's theatre novels, in particular Enter a Murderer. 

I think West did maybe too good of a job of ensuring the breadcrumbs were laid for the reader to work out the murderer, as I worked out who it was almost immediately. I didn't find that I was persuaded that anyone else could be the murderer through the novel, which cemented West's commitment to fairplay but turned the story into more of a howdoneit than a whodoneit. 

Overall this is a solid example of the genre with an interesting take, but I would have liked a little more mystery. 

Thank you to NetGalley and to Brabinger Publishing for the ebook ARC, this has been a good fun book to read and review.