A Man Lay Dead By Ngaio Marsh

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.

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