Ngaio Marsh A Man Lay Dead

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Saturday Play: A Man Lay Dead   Sat 6th Jan 2001, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Ngaio Marsh   Dramatised by Michael Bakewell directed by Enyd Williams. Two parts combined Jeremy Clyde as Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn When a murder takes place at a country-house party, Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn faces another baffling case. It’s the Spring of 1930-something . Sir Herbert Handesley, famous for his entertaining parties, has planned to liven up the current one with a spirited game of "Murder." Unfortunately one guest really does wind up dead. Scotland Yard Inspector Roderick Alleyn, having the proper social credentials, is called in to solve more than one mystery when he finds that, in addition to the murder Russian anarchists seem to be running about. Is the detective work realistic? Eh probably not. Is it highly entertaining? You bet! CDI Alleyn: Jeremy Clyde Sgt Bunce: Stephen Thorne Sir Hubert: Donald Sinden Nigel: Nick Waring Arthur: John Moffatt Marjorie: Dorothy Tutin Angela: Molly Gaisford Rosamund: Susannah Corbett Charles: Derek Waring Dr Tokareff: John Hartley Ngaio Marsh's classic first novel, which introduced Inspector Alleyn and set Ngaio Marsh on the path to international recognition. 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, with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have had time to concoct skilful alibis -- and it is Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn who has to try and figure out whodunit... A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.