A Man Lay Dead (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
Sep 2009 · HarperCollins UK
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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume of the 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit...
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Pam Pavloff
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March 18, 2014
I used to get these books from the local library for my mother when I was about 10years old she was not well enough to go to town and so I had special permission to take them home for her.children were not allowed to take adult books out of libraries in the 50's
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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.
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