NGAIO MARSH

Ngaio Marsh Volume 3

COPYRIGHT

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.

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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

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

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

Death in a White Tie

CONTENTS

Title Page

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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