Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3: Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar

Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3: Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar
Ngaio Marsh

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…

NGAIO MARSH

Ngaio Marsh Volume 3

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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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Cover (#uc3d344b3-9803-55b5-aa1d-b6ab8a80dcd7)

Title Page (#uae9531aa-1f57-52e2-b9bc-de81d416474d)

Copyright (#u4f421163-2b44-5fab-9816-769e924f112f)

Death in a White Tie (#u540547b7-5e7f-5a89-85ce-5b4298165c36)

Overture to Death (#litres_trial_promo)

Death at the Bar (#litres_trial_promo)

BONUS STORY: The Figure Quoted (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Death in a White Tie (#ulink_c0f3425b-3c24-54ab-93d4-4f8caa4379c4)

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Title Page (#u540547b7-5e7f-5a89-85ce-5b4298165c36)

The Characters in the Tale (#u89e9db92-3649-50b7-b8da-21f67f576603)

1 The Protagonists (#ucc43acb9-02f8-585a-bd9d-5928e06821af)

2 Bunchy (#uc657da96-d6a2-5e5a-aff8-5d64a68b0812)

3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party (#u442843d9-3806-5b2b-925e-71ee88058c5a)

4 Blackmail to Music (#uf3876acf-28e9-5dfa-82aa-a6979876875e)

5 Unqualified Success (#u9ae9a958-c61b-5780-9927-b5a6476c78d0)

6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard (#u4fa382d5-6d17-551c-adad-b8a04f0a2ca6)

7 Stop Press News (#u35fc14e5-a8d1-5ae0-bfae-0bf1cd193bc2)

8 Troy and Alleyn (#u048ccc02-2506-5349-8448-977199b8efbe)

9 Report from Mr Fox (#ua1937e30-0f31-5f9f-b80a-a1e3b55464e0)

10 Donald (#ub905eafd-a449-5159-b74d-793f92169b6c)

11 Captain Withers at Home (#ubcf12f44-1329-5ce6-a37a-4f93447dd26e)

12 Report from a Waiter (#u30a4ed87-413a-591b-ab64-4641abcb4e36)

13 Dimitri Cuts His Fingers (#u249cfbb4-9226-53d2-b811-7e1487c4b185)

14 Davidson Digresses (#u6e5e61f7-499d-5e53-8bda-79d3f6039e15)

15 Simple Soldier-man (#ub0d99651-d27b-592e-80ca-b3e146bcc569)

16 Lady Carrados Looks Back (#u7ba7fe8e-6d42-5f7d-97e2-8dab12ef5367)