A Man Lay Dead: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #1 (Inspectr Roderick Alleyn)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0062N35ME |
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| Number of Pages | : | 365 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Adventure, Comedy, and Romance woven into Complex and Reasonable Murder Mystery. Tour de Force! Amazon Customer Marsh's introductory book of the Roderick Alleyn series, this one is probably the most light-hearted of the series. Introduces her ability to make every character complex and the protagonists lovable. It's a complex murder mystery, with motives, behavior, and opportunity all factoring into the logic of how she assigns the whodunit. This is a story that captures the adventure, glamour, and romance of three young people running around solving crimes in 1930's London, from a posh estate to a sinister gang of Russian mobsters. Ngaio Marsh employs a witty and sometimes uniquely absurd sense of humor, never fails to be original. Also show. And so it begins The first of the Ngaio Marsh, Inspector Allen series introduces the characters for the remaining books. As in any series of this genre, the evolution of these characters is as essential as the stories themselves.. "A Matter of Taste" according to frumiousb. This is not my favorite Ngaio Marsh novel. One of the things I like about her later books is where they break from the more classic chamber mystery form. This, her first book, (while still being very readable and enjoyable) is much more in the line of the tried and true formula. The characters are, as always, interesting and well-drawn; the red herrings are sufficiently misleading. Solid all the way around.
Even more delicious: The host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game.. Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens (she has been called the empress) of England’s Golden Age of mystery fiction. And in true Golden Age fashion, her oeuvre opens with, yes, a country-house party between the two world wars – servants bustling, gin flowing, the gentlemen in dinner jackets, the ladies all slink and smolder
'Faultless story-telling.' --New York Times
It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966. . She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. 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