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Death in a white tie ; Overture to death ; Death at the bar ; and The figure quoted / Ngaio Marsh.

by Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982.

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Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Service -- Fiction.

Police -- England -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982. Roderick Alleyn mysteries ; 7-9.

9780007328710 (trade pbk.)

833 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published in 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1930 respectively.

Death in a white tie -- Overture to death -- Death at the bar -- The figure quoted.

Death in a white tie: Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.

Overture to death: Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her own excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realises that the murderer might have killed the wrong woman - and may soon stage a repeat performance.

Death at the bar: A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub - until one of the players dies on the spot, after a small accident. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn't the dart that killed him; it was the prussic acid someone helpfully added to the cut.

Mystery fiction.

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