num_pages: 290
description: 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 grotesque corpse, savagely stabbed.Seven people had the opportunity, seven people had made up amusing alibis...
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: Fontana/Collins