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- Little, Brown Audio
- Little, Brown Audio
Classic crime
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels.
The season had begun. 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.
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...
Praise for Death In A White Tie
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The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers - Times Literary Supplement
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Ngaio Marsh's Death in a White Tie is the best detective story I have ever read... - Dashiell Hammett
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[This book has] a distinction that puts the author in the front rank of crime story writers - Times Literary Supplement
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A brilliant, vivacious teller of detective novels. - News Chronicle
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