A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn Mysteries, #1) (Medical Intelligence Unit (Unnumbered))

by Ngaio Marsh

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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…

  • ISBN10 0006512518
  • ISBN13 9780006512516
  • Publish Date 4 December 2000 (first published 27 August 1970)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 27 July 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins