A review by 1mpossiblealice
Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh

3.5

Enjoyed this one - it has some of my favourite aspects - country house, snowed in, murder mystery. It does take quite a long time for the murder to happen and Alleyn doesn't show up until quite far into the book. Some of the characters were interesting, some not that well developed, I did like Mandrake though, who is sort of the protagonist. 
The idea of the host inviting loads of people who all have issues with each other sounds like the premise of a reality show but thankfully they mostly aren't that open about it, at least at first.
I think there are quite obvious clues to the solution, so while I enjoyed this, it's not as good as some of the other Marsh novels I've read.