A Man Lay Dead
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| Title: | A Man Lay Dead |
| Categories: | Inspector Roderick Alleyn |
| BookID: | 382 |
| Authors: | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN-10(13): | 9780515075359 |
| Publisher: | Jove |
| Publication date: | 03-15-1984 |
| Number of pages: | 192 |
| Owner Email: | [email protected] |
| Language: | English |
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| Description: |
Ngaio Marsh's classic first novel, which introduced Inspector Alleyn and set Ngaio Marsh on the path to international recognition. Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time there is a real corpse, with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have had time to concoct skilful alibis -- and it is Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn who has to try and figure out whodunit... |
