Synopsis
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time there is a real corpse.
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.
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A Man Lay Dead
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Collins, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 000231682X
ISBN 13: 9780002316828
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Crime Club Famous First. First published in 1934 . Very good clean copy with very good dust jacket with very minor sunning to spine of dj. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 67245