A Man Lay Dead: Inspector Roderick Alleyn (Volume 1) - Ngaio Marsh

Category: Adults, Classic, Crime, Detective
Language: English
Keywords: Inspector Roderick Alleyn Traditional Detective Mysteries

Written by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon
Format: Opus
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

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 skillful alibis — and it is Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn who has to try and figure out whodunit…..