A review by roberta_carr
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

4.0

I always find Ngaio Marsh slightly frustrating. The plots are not as good as Agatha Christie's, and the characterisations are not as good as Dorothy L Sayers'. Having said that, this one is really fun. The house party setting is very good snobbish fun and the game during which the murder takes place is pleasurably silly. If you're going to read a Ngaio, this would be one of my top picks, along with Artists in Crime.