A Man Lay Dead

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Philip Franks

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

A very good story

The voices of the characters are great. The story is both entertaining and intellectual. The story is a bit on the long side.

The beginning

First of the Alleyn novels a bit clunky but entertaining. Good to know where it all began.

Enter the great Roderyck Allen!!!

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!!

classic detective story, done well

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.

Uninteresting

I found it difficult to keep track with this book. I didn't really see the point of the Russian spy part of the plot. Skipping that would have made it a little better. Also the narrator could have been more animated. It was like he was reading stereo instructions.