A Man Lay Dead

Ngaio Marsh

Jan 2016 · Inspector Alleyn Book 1 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Philip Franks

About this audiobook

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...

Ratings and reviews

A congenial, fun-loving host, a huge, well-appointed country estate, and a clutch of old friends arriving for the weekend. What could go wrong? The appearance on this entertaining scene of Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Alleyn means something went very wrong indeed. Adding more confusion is the party game this group of friends was playing. The game's rules leave two dead men but only one corpse. And Alleyn has to uncover two suspects...but only one murderer.

About the author

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.