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Thirty-two Roderick Alleyn mysteries across forty-eight years is a wall to a new reader. Marsh was a theatre director as well as a novelist, and the theatrical books are the ones worth arriving for. This path gives you the debut for context, then the Troy books, then the theatre.

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Thirty-two Roderick Alleyn mysteries across forty-eight years is a wall to a new reader. Marsh was a theatre director as well as a novelist, and the theatrical books are the ones worth arriving for. This path gives you the debut for context, then the Troy books, then the theatre.
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A strong starting point is A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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