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Death In A White Tie - Abridged by Ngaio Marsh
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Length 3 hours 16 minutes
Language English
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The season had begun. Débutantes 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.

But someone else got there first...

It's a difficult case for Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn. How can he believe that the woman he loves is a murderess? And yet no one can be above suspicion...

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.

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The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers Ngaio Marsh's Death in a White Tie is the best detective story I have ever read... [This book has] a distinction that puts the author in the front rank of crime story writers A brilliant, vivacious teller of detective novels. Expand reviews
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