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A Man Lay Dead
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 Name: | Endeavor |
Owner Email: | rnoggle1@gmail.com |
Language: | English |
Price: | 0.00 |
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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... |
Book owner: | endeavor |