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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 Name:      Endeavor
Owner Email:      rnoggle1@gmail.com
Language:      English
Price:      0.00
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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...

Book owner:      endeavor


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