A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
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A Man Lay Dead

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Philip Franks

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

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...

About Ngaio Marsh

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on February 08, 2025

This being the first Roderick Alleyn murder mystery... out of 33, of Ngaio Marsh, wonderful appellation, ( beats the first name of Edith... her middle one tops that, no contest) the author is getting her sea legs the plot nothing new even in 1934 when written. Sir Hubert Handesley invites a small nu......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on June 01, 2022

Interesante lectura para quién quiera conocer una alternativa diferente a Agatha Christie. No desvelaré nada acerca de la trama. Ameno y ligero. Sin más complicaciones.......more

Goodreads review by Charles on January 24, 2024

A puzzle driven mystery with plot second and characters a distant third. The denouement is just silly. The method used by the murderer is really beyond belief, relying on everything being just right. As a movie, it would only work in a comedy. While in high school I dismissed Nagio Marsh as not worth......more

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