A Man Lay Dead

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312963583
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man Lay Dead written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN 13 : 1934609951
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man Lay Dead written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime comes to a country house: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A, and this one is no exception.” —The New York Times This classic from the Golden Age of British mystery opens during a country-house party between the two world wars—servants bustling, gin flowing, the gentlemen in dinner jackets, the ladies all slink and smolder. Even more delicious: The host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN 13 : 1937384314
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in a White Tie written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . .“Marsh’s writing is a pleasure.” —The Seattle Times It’s debutante season in London, and that means giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances . . ..and much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn’s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord “Bunchy” Gospell, everybody’s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than lovable; he’s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can unmask the blackmailer, a murder is announced. And everyone suddenly stops giggling . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “[Her] writing style and vivid characters and settings made her a mystery novelist of world renown.” —The New York Times

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312966706
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enter A Murderer written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime was committed on stage at the theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent; the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN 13 : 1937384454
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death at the Bar written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an English pub, a dart becomes a deadly weapon: “Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A.” —The New York Times A game of darts does involve some danger, but it’s rarely lethal. There are exceptions, however, like the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the Plume of Feathers pub, and is now residing at the morgue. But Inspector Roderick Alleyn has a growing hunch that this peculiar “accident” can be traced to an old legal case . . . “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312963606
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Ecstasy written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ritual Wine Taste of Evil When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780002316828
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man Lay Dead written by Ngaio Marsh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kriminalroman om et overklasseselskab, der under et weekend-ophold på en herregård morer sig med en "morderleg". Legen udvikler sig pludselig til alvor, og det bliver nødvendigt at tilkalde kriminalkommisær Alleyn.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN 13 : 163194049X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black As He's Painted written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visiting dignitary in London asks for security—and gets extra help from a clever feline—in a novel starring “the nonpareil among criminal investigators” (The New York Times). Superintendent Alleyn’s old school chum, nicknamed the “Boomer,” has become the president of the newly emerged African nation of Ng’ombwana, newly emerged in the wake of colonialism. Old school ties being what they are, his friend—making an official visit to London—insists that Alleyn handle his security, rather than Her Majesty’s Special Branch. The Special Branch is not best pleased about this, as the Boomer is known to have some very deadly enemies, and the threats only increase when the Ng’ombwanan ambassador is killed. Happily for the Boomer, not only is Alleyn up to the task, but he is assisted by a rescued cat who proves extremely adept at finding clues . . . “The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.” —Times Literary Supplement

Author : David Levien
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385530277
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Dead Lay written by David Levien and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank Behr’s friend and mentor is murdered without any apparent motive, he thirsts for answers and retaliation. But before he can make headway in the dead-end investigation, a private firm approaches him with a delicate proposition: two of its detectives have gone missing, and the firm wants Behr to find out what happened to them. The search for the missing detectives takes Behr into the recesses of Indianapolis’s underworld, a place rife with brutality and vice where Behr uncovers a shocking thread connecting the missing detectives to his friend’s brutal murder, and, in the process, an ominous, deadly new breed of crime family.

Author : Ngaio Marsh
Publisher : FelonyandMayhem+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1631942719
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1 written by Ngaio Marsh and published by FelonyandMayhem+ORM. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three Inspector Roderick Alleyn novels from “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews). This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master: A Man Lay Dead: During a country-house party between the two world wars, servants bustle, gin flows, and the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game . . . Enter a Murderer: A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage in a mystery “good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories” (The New York Times). The Nursing Home Murder: A Member of Parliament has unexpectedly died on a visit the hospital, and any number of people could be suspects, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals . . . “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine