A Man Lay Dead


‘he said...marriage with a woman who understood you was emotional suicide’ Mr Bennigden

Ngaio Marsh is strongly starting to become one of my favourite authors despite me learning that maybe her genre of crime is not.

The novel is enjoyable from the onset as well as easy to ready, flowing easily from the exposition, murder to investigation. I’m not entirely sure if the novel can be placed within the category of a cozy mystery even though it has a typical small town setting and somewhat includes stock characters like socialite Mrs Wilde, but Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn is far from an amateur and what is learnt about him personally is information that only pertains to the investigation at hand. What’s more, unlike most detectives Alleyn works extremely well with the police and his unique methods of investigation seem to be encouraged and appreciated though this can’t be all too surprising as Marsh put him in a high power position. I also enjoy reading the whole pages that detail his thought process even though I was unable to see the logic in his decisions sometimes.

Alleyn does appear more cocky than I first perceived him to be when reading ‘Enter A Murderer’ and at times felt he was too harsh on Bathgate for not being able to keep up with his investigation. This presented Bathgate as an almost perfect mouth piece for the reader in the novel n my opinion as he isn’t able to figure everything out and also ‘wished he were a detective’, constantly trying to help, much like I was myself.

I was able to figure out who the victim was going to be before the murder took place which is rare for me so I was quite pleased with myself for doing so; however after that I wasn’t particularly interested in finding out who the murderer was but was more concerned with the development of Bathgate and Angela North’s relationship. This isn’t the first time I’ve felt this way when reading a crime novel as I detailed before once I read ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’. Due to this I feel that despite believing for a long time that crime was my preferred genre that might not be. At the same time I still want to continue to read this series by Marsh as the way she writes is very engaging and enjoyable, but she was a very prolific writer and I have nowhere near made a mark in her bibliography.



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