num_pages: 274
description: 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...
language: English
title: Death In a White Tie
titlecomplete: Death In a White Tie
characters: Lady Alleyn, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Agatha Troy
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 10678
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: Bantam