Crafts and Life

Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit…

Nigel Bathgate has been invited to a weekend house party at Frantock, Sir Hubert Handesley's house, the other members of the party are Nigel's cousin Charles Rankin, a married couple the Wilde's, a young lady by the name of Rosemund Grant, a Russian Dr Tokaroff and Sir Hubert's niece Angela North.  The theme for the weekend will be the Murder Game but no one expects a real corpse in the form of Charles Rankin, Inspector Alleyn needs to dig deep to get past the lies and misdirections to find out whodunnit.