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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 Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective Murder
Classic Mystery • Clever Plot • Distinct Character Voices • Entertaining Storyline • Solid Detective Story • Wry Humor
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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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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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Story well written great characters and kept me guessing the entire time - loved it and will read more by this author!

Narrator fabulous

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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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if you read Ngaio Marah, you know own what you are getting: a solid mystery (logic pizzzle) with a teeny bit of character development for the detective thrown.in over many novels. I love these books and two classic British detective genre. there is a very good reason Marsh ranks up there with Christie and Sayers.

here, the narrator/voice performer does am excellent job with the different characters.

classic detective story, done well

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