num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Man Lay Dead
titlecomplete: A Man Lay Dead
characters: Doctor Foma Tokareff, Charles Rankin, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Marjorie Wilde, Nigel Bathgate, Arthur Wilde, Sir Hubert Handesley, Rosamund Grant, Vassily Ivanovitch, Angela North
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 14458
places: England, Frantock Hall, United Kingdom
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers