Years ago I read quite a few of the Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Evidently I never read the very first one because it was entirely unfamiliar to me. The story is a typical English country house weekend party murder mystery. They are ubiquitous in the Brit mystery genre. Five guests are invited to the home of Sir Hubert Handesley. The weekend's entertainment is to be the parlor game "Murder" where one person has been secretly selected as the "murderer" who then chooses a "victim." When the lights go off and the gong is sounded the guests are to assemble to solve the murder. However, when the lights are turned back on they discover an actual corpse of one of the invited guests. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard arrives to solve the crime. A garden-variety whodunit.
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