I read this book about 13-May-2003. This is the first time I've read this book. The book is copyright 1941. This note was last modified Monday, 05-May-2014 22:26:47 PDT.
I wonder if I wrote the description for A Man Lay Dead thinking it was this one? I can't now find the book, so I can't check.
Anyway, this one has definite overtones of The Devil's Game—a house party of carefully selected enemies. Pretty nasty situation all around really.