num_pages: 176
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 (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
characters: Doctor Foma Tokareff, Charles Rankin, Nigel Bathgate, Rosamund Grant, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Marjorie Wilde, Sir Hubert Handesley, Vassily Ivanovitch, Arthur Wilde, Angela North
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 14456
places: Frantock Hall, United Kingdom, England
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: HarperCollins