{"description": "A game of Murder turns deadly when it ends in a real murder, in the country-house of Sir Hubert Handesley. Roderick Alleyn's first case.", "title": "A Man Lay Dead", "covers": [9751560, 184439, 8570000, 5876, 10616899], "subjects": ["Country-house Mystery", "Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Police", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural", "England, fiction"], "key": "/works/OL460783W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL26952A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["1930s", "Between the Wars"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["England", "London"], "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T02:36:22.861390"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-17T03:28:27.997123"}}