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28%OFFNgaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 1) - 9780007328697 - V9780007328697
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A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 1)

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Description for A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (The Ngaio Marsh Collection, Book 1) paperback. Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Series: The Ngaio Marsh Collection. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 43. Weight in Grams: 458.

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.

A MAN LAY DEAD
Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit…

ENTER A MURDERER
The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases…

THE NURSING HOME MURDER
A Harley Street surgeon and his attractive nurse are almost too nervous to operate. Their patient is the Home Secretary – and they both have very good personal reasons to want him dead. The operation is a complete success – but he dies within hours, and Inspector Alleyn must find out why…

Product Details

Publisher
Harper
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
The Ngaio Marsh Collection
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007328697
SKU
V9780007328697
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ngaio Marsh
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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