
The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1
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This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:
A Man Lay Dead :During a country-house party between the two world wars, servants bustle, gin flows, and the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game...
Enter a Murderer :A policeman in the audience sees an all-too-real death scene on a London stage in a mystery "good enough to satisfy the most critical reader of detective stories" ( The New York Times).
The Nursing Home Murder :A Member of Parliament has unexpectedly died on a visit the hospital, and any number of people could be suspects, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals...
"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." - New York Magazine
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Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- A Man Lay Dead
- CHAPTER ONE "And There Were Present...
- CHAPTER TWO The Dagger
- CHAPTER THREE "You Are the Corpse
- CHAPTER FOUR Monday
- CHAPTER FIVE Mock Trial
- CHAPTER SIX Alleyn Does His Stuff
- CHAPTER SEVEN Rankin Leaves Frantock
- CHAPTER EIGHT Following Information from a Baby
- CHAPTER NINE Garden Piece
- CHAPTER TEN Black Fur
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Confession
- CHAPTER TWELVE An Arrest and a Night Journey
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Russian Element
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Meet Adjourned
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Alleyn Comes Cleanish
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Accused Was Charged
- Enter a Murderer
- CHAPTER ONE Prologue to a Play
- CHAPTER TWO "Overture and Beginners, Please
- CHAPTER THREE Death of a Beaver
- CHAPTER FOUR Alleyn Takes Over
- CHAPTER FIVE Statement of the Stage Manager
- CHAPTER SIX Into the Small Hours
- CHAPTER SEVEN Props
- CHAPTER EIGHT Felix Gardener
- CHAPTER NINE Stephanie Vaughan's Shoulder
- CHAPTER TEN The Day After
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Nigel Turns Sleuth
- CHAPTER TWELVE Subonadier's Flat
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Contents of an Iron-Bound Box
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Gardener Looks Backwards
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Achilles' Heel
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Inquest
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Sloane Street to the Yard
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Arrest
- CHAPTER NINETEEN Nigel Warned Off
- CHAPTER TWENTY Exit Props
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE This Ineffable Effrontery
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Final Curtain
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Epilogue to a Play
- The Nursing Home Murder
- CHAPTER ONE 10 Downing Street
- CHAPTER TWO Introduces to a Patent Medicine
- CHAPTER THREE Sequel to a Scene in the House
- CHAPTER FOUR Post-Operative
- CHAPTER FIVE Lady O'Callaghan Insists
- CHAPTER SIX Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn
- CHAPTER SEVEN Post-Mortem
- CHAPTER EIGHT Hyoscine
- CHAPTER NINE Three Nurses
- CHAPTER TEN Thoms in the Theatre
- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Anæesthetist
- CHAPTER TWELVE The Lenin Hall Lot
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Surprising Antics of a Chemist
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN "Fulvitavolts
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The "Clean Breast" of Sir John Philips
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Reconstruction Begun
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Reconstruction Concluded
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Retrospective
- Copyright
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