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A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh7/5/2023 ![]() He arrives at Frampton from Scotland Yard the morning after the murder. Alleyn is already a seasoned detective, with a reputation for thorough and careful sleuthing. This is not Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's first murder case, although it is Ngaio Marsh's first novel. Sir Hubert has his own rules for the Murder Game, and eventually a murder there is, but not the theatrically staged one they have anticipated. There will seven or eight guests, and, upon arrival, he learns that the main event will be a Murder. ![]() He has heard these houseparties hosted by Sir Hubert Handesley are both "original" and unpretentious. Nigel Bathgate, with his cousin Charles Rankin, is attending his first houseparty at Frampton. This is Ngaio Marsh's debut novel, a classic country house party murder mystery, where the reader is tempted to map the location of all of the characters at the location of the murder. ![]() Isis Publishing large print edition, 2005. ![]()
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