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A Man Lay Dead

Written by: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Philip Franks
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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....

©1934 Ngaio Marsh (P)2015 Hachette Audio Cozy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Detective Murder
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This was my first Ngaio Marsh book and I enjoyed it. Given the time period in which it was written, it fits into the mold of the A. Christie and others of the time, the so called "Golden Age of Detective Stories". I will continue the Alleyn series. The narration by Philip Frank's was very nicely done.

A good story for time and place

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Suspenseful but not scary and not at all gory. It was great deductive fun! I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

Great mystery

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