A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer

A MAN LAY DEAD - Inspector Alleyn #1 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. ENTER A MURDERER - Inspector Alleyn #2 The novel is the first of the theatrical novels for which Marsh was to become famous, taking its title from a line of stage direction in Macbeth, and the plot concerns a murder committed during the run of a play in London.


Genre: Mystery