ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Ngaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead
Fontana / Collins, 1959
191 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro-, vlaga je ostavila trag.

Roderick Alleyn #1

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.

THE act of murder has a fatal fascination. Sir Hubert Handesley thought so and arranged to play the game called `Murder` during his week-end house party. The murderer`s identity was secret, but when the lights went up none of the guests were prepared to see a real corpse, grotesque and savagely stabbed. Seven people had the opportunity, seven people had made up amusing alibis, but there was little humour left when the ensuing scenes of this bizarre game were played out before Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn.

A Man Lay Dead was Ngaio Marsh`s first venture in crime writing although she has since written over 20 novels. For her work in connection with literature and drama in New Zealand she was awarded the O.Β.Ε.


Fiction, Mystery, Thriller