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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DEATH IN A WHITE TIEThe season has begun. Débutantes and chaperones are planning their gala dinners - and the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up and has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first…OVERTURE TO DEATHIt was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, and an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck, a shot rings out, and Miss Campanula is dead.it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn…DEATH AT THE BARA midsummer evening - darts night at The Plume of Feathers, a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare and a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn…

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NGAIO MARSH

Ngaio Marsh Volume 3

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COPYRIGHT Copyright Death in a White Tie Overture to Death Death at the Bar BONUS STORY: The Figure Quoted Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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Death in a White Tie first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1938 Overture to Death first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1939 Death at the Bar first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1940 The Figure Quoted first published in Great Britain by Dent 1930

Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1930, 1938, 1939, 1940

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Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2013 ISBN: 9780007531370

Version: 2018-02-16

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page NGAIO MARSH

Copyright

Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie

Overture to Death

Death at the Bar

BONUS STORY: The Figure Quoted

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie Overture to Death Death at the Bar BONUS STORY: The Figure Quoted Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

CONTENTS

Title Page Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie Overture to Death Death at the Bar BONUS STORY: The Figure Quoted Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

The Characters in the Tale

1 The Protagonists

2 Bunchy

3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party

4 Blackmail to Music

5 Unqualified Success

6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard

7 Stop Press News

8 Troy and Alleyn

9 Report from Mr Fox

10 Donald

11 Captain Withers at Home

12 Report from a Waiter

13 Dimitri Cuts His Fingers

14 Davidson Digresses

15 Simple Soldier-man

16 Lady Carrados Looks Back

17 The Element of Youth

18 Predicament of a Secretary

19 The General

20 Rose Birnbaum

21 Statement by Lucy Lorrimer

22 Night Club

23 Donald on Wits

24 The Dance Is Wound Up

25 Benefit of Clergy

26 Alleyn Plots a Dénouement

27 Interlude for Love

28 Alleyn Marshals the Protagonists

29 Climax

30 Confessions from Troy

Epilogue

THE CHARACTERS IN THE TALE

Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, CID
Lady Alleyn His mother
Sarah Alleyn His débutante niece
Miss Violet Harris Secretary to Lady Carrados
Lady Evelyn Carrados A London hostess
Bridget O’Brien Her daughter
Sir Herbert Carrados Her husband
Lord Robert Gospell (‘Bunchy’) A relic of Victorian days
Sir Daniel Davidson A fashionable London physician
Agatha Troy, RA A painter
Lady Mildred Potter Lord Robert’s widowed sister
Donald Potter Her son – a medical student
Mrs Halcut-Hackett A social climber
General Halcut-Hackett Her husband
Miss Rose Birnbaum Her protégée
Captain Maurice Withers (‘Wits’) A man about town
Colombo Dimitri A fashionable caterer
Lucy, Dowager Marchioness of Lorrimer An eccentric old lady
A Taxi-driver
Miss Smith A friend of Miss Harris
Detective-Inspector Fox, CID
Percy Percival A young man about town
Mr Trelawney-Caper His friend
James d’Arcy Carewe A detective-constable
François Dupont Dimitri’s servant
Mr Cuthbert Manager of the Matador
Vassily Alleyn’s servant
The Reverend Walter Harris A retired clergyman
Mrs Walter Harris His wife
The Assistant Commissioner
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