A man lay dead
Author
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Murdered.At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of "Murder." Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game.
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Marsh, Ngaio Author
ISBN
9781934609842
9781934609958
9781934609958
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Published Reviews
Library Journal Review
The scene is the home of Sir Hubert Handesley of Frantock, England. The activity is a weekend party "murder game" that becomes the real thing in Marsh's classic whodunit. Charles Rankin is stabbed in the back with an ancient Mongolian dagger, and his nephew Nigel Bathgate, a young journalist who will inherit Rankin's fortune upon his death, is one of the eccentric house guests. Other guests include an archaeologist and his wife, a Russian doctor, Sir Hubert's niece, and another young woman. Scotland Yard sends Chief Inspector Alleyn to investigate. Alleyn insists that the murder game be played out to its conclusion in order to solve the mystery. Although each guest seems to have an ironclad alibi, Alleyn uses his uncanny deductive powers "to get his man." British actor James Saxon, who reads other entries in the series (e.g, The Nursing Home Murder, LJ 10/1/92), continues to interpret Marsh entertainingly. Recommended for mystery collections.-Kristin M. Jacobi, Mitchell Coll. Lib., New London, Ct.(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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