Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3: Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar
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
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
CONTENTS
3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party
6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard
| 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 |
‘Roderick,’ said Lady Alleyn, looking at her son over the top of her spectacles, ‘I am coming out.’
‘Out?’ repeated Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn vaguely. ‘Out where, mama? Out of what?’
‘Out into the world. Out of retirement. Out into the season. Out. Dear me,’ she added confusedly, ‘how absurd a word becomes if one says it repeatedly. Out.’
Alleyn laid an official-looking document on the breakfast-table and stared at his mother.
‘What can you be talking about?’ he said.
‘Don’t be stupid, darling. I am going to do the London season.’
‘Have you taken leave of your senses?’
‘I think perhaps I have. I have told George and Grace that I will bring Sarah out this coming season. Here is a letter from George and here is another from Grace. Government House, Suva. They think it charming of me to offer.’
