Death In A White Tie

Name: Death In A White Tie
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405505079

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #36

Narrator: Benedict Cumberbatch

Abridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 08/28/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

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...

About Ngaio Marsh

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on November 17, 2019

I have read quite a number of these Roderick Alleyn books in my 2019 reading year. This was another pristine paperback from Felony & Mayhem of a book that had originally been published in 1938. Taking into account the manners of that period this stands up as a challenging investigation for Alleyn an......more

Goodreads review by Bev on September 06, 2014

Death in a White Tie is a reread for me. I discovered Ngaio Marsh back at my hometown Carnegie Library (more moons ago than we need to count) and I promptly read through all the Marsh books they had. Later, about twenty years ago, I read some of them again and Death in a White Tie was one simply bec......more

Goodreads review by John on April 25, 2022

Another great whodunnit. Alleyn and Fox investigate the murder of a friend of Alleyn. The scene is the debutante season in London. Two women are being blackmailed, but who is the blackmailer. Troy also in the story and Alleyn is after her love although she is playing hard to get. Lord Robert Gospell......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on March 21, 2010

Death in a White Tie was a very pleasant surprise for me. I've read three other Marsh mysteries, and found them dull and blandly written. I had this on my shelf, and thought I'd start it, give it my usual 50 pages, then get rid of it. I was hooked, however, because of how vividly the fictional world......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 13, 2021

Loved it! A proper classic mystery, set around "the season" Debutantes, Blackmail, Parties, Murder and an array of interesting characters make for what I think is my favourite Ngaio Marsh book yet! Inspector Alleyn is top of my list AGAIN!......more

Quotes

The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers Times Literary Supplement

Ngaio Marsh's Death in a White Tie is the best detective story I have ever read... Dashiell Hammett

[This book has] a distinction that puts the author in the front rank of crime story writers Times Literary Supplement

A brilliant, vivacious teller of detective novels. News Chronicle