A Man Lay Dead

De: Ngaio Marsh

Narrado por: 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

The first Roderick Alleyn mystery

Excellent narration of Ngaio Marsh’s first Scotland Yard tale. A fun read but a weak plot in general. Her later novels are much improved. Still fun to listen to.

Great narration

This is the first Inspector Alleyn Mystery. The story isn’t of the same caliber as the later stories, but worth a read if you want to learn how it all began.

Ngaio Marsh deserves more recognition

Can recommend. Excellent narrator and absolutely typical (in the best way) golden age murder mystery.

Clever Story

Well plotted story and as expected well written. Characters not especially endearing and the Russian part of plot was a bit peculiar. still a pleasure to listen to.

Narrator fabulous

Story well written great characters and kept me guessing the entire time - loved it and will read more by this author!

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.