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A Man Lay Dead

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A Man Lay Dead

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 Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective
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Clever Storyline • Engaging Mystery • Excellent Narrator • Solid Plot • Witty Dialogues • Brilliant Voice Performance
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This is the first Inspector Alleyn Mystery. The story isn’t of the same caliber as the later stories, but worth a read if you want to learn how it all began.

Great narration

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Excellent narration of Ngaio Marsh’s first Scotland Yard tale. A fun read but a weak plot in general. Her later novels are much improved. Still fun to listen to.

The first Roderick Alleyn mystery

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Page turner. Suspenseful great audio book. I love the twists, turns and details of the select stars like Marsh.

Page turner.

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Save us from murders at British weekend house parties. And save us from mysterious gangs of foreigners. The introductory Alleyn novel had included these and other overworked British mystery themes. Alleyn himself is clever and intelligent but not well developed as a character. In short, give this a miss unless you are set on reading the whole series.

Too many cliched

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Subtle and paced with enough characters well sketched to make a believable procedural with human account. Read it.

Classic Marsh

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The voices of the characters are great. The story is both entertaining and intellectual. The story is a bit on the long side.

A very good story

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First of the Alleyn novels a bit clunky but entertaining. Good to know where it all began.

The beginning

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This first Roderyck Allen book is so good!!! The debut of Ngaio Marsh's detective is a super story and establishes him as her number one detective! It is full of mystery, plot, secrets and a surprise end! He always gets his man!!

Enter the great Roderyck Allen!!!

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Can recommend. Excellent narrator and absolutely typical (in the best way) golden age murder mystery.

Ngaio Marsh deserves more recognition

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Well plotted story and as expected well written. Characters not especially endearing and the Russian part of plot was a bit peculiar. still a pleasure to listen to.

Clever Story

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