num_pages: 214
description: Some distinguished guests at Sir Hubert Handesley’s country estate decide to play exotic games. But when a corpse turns out to be it, the game gets vicious.In steps the renowned Inspector AHeyn, who moves coolly through this world of butlers and Bentleys to unravel a coil of scandal, conspiracy, and murder most foul…
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: 14453
places: England, Frantock Hall, United Kingdom
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks