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A review by we_are_all_mad_here26
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
3.0
What struck me about this book was that the characters, who were all presumably pretty young, still seemed old to me. The same way that people in my parents' high school yearbooks look old even though we all know that high school seniors were the same age in the 1950s was they were in the 1980s, or even now. So you're looking at a young person but feeling the oldness. That's how this book felt. Though it's possible this makes sense to no one outside of me.
Anyway, it's the 2nd Roderick Alleyn book I've read and I liked it much better than the first one I read. I am wondering, though, whether Nigel is going to be the Watson of the series and if so, how difficult it will become for me to continue believing that a homicide investigator would accept a reporter as a sidekick.
Bottom line, I have been convinced to carry on with the series.
Anyway, it's the 2nd Roderick Alleyn book I've read and I liked it much better than the first one I read. I am wondering, though, whether Nigel is going to be the Watson of the series and if so, how difficult it will become for me to continue believing that a homicide investigator would accept a reporter as a sidekick.
Bottom line, I have been convinced to carry on with the series.