Death In A White Tie

Ngaio Marsh

Oct 2015 · Inspector Alleyn Book 7 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by James Saxon

About this audiobook

The London season has begun. But while debutantes and chaperones plan their luncheons and balls a deadly blackmailer is stalking the highest echelons of society.

Naturally, it falls to charming, aloof Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn - son of Lady Alleyn - to investigate the case. He has already planted his close friend Lord Robert at the scene. But someone else got to him first . . .

Death in a White Tie was first published in 1938 and is perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels - elegantly constructed, witty and marvelously entertaining.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was deemed one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s. She was knighted a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966. Ngaio Marsh died in 1982. Death in a White Tie was first published in 1938.