Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar

von Ngaio Marsh

848 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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...

• Reihe: The Ngaio Marsh Collection
• Themen: Belletristik Kriminalromane und Mystery Klassische Kriminalromane und Mystery
• ISBN: 9780007328710
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2009
• Größe: 196 x 130 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers