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An edition of Death in a White Tie (1938)

Death in a white tie.

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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...

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Publisher
Collins
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects

Fiction, Fiction in English, Mystery, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Roman policier, Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction

Places

England, Great Britain

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Cover of: La mort en habit noir
La mort en habit noir: Au jeu de la mort
1999, France loisirs
in French
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Death in a White Tie
April 19, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
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Death in a White Tie
October 15, 1997, St. Martin's Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Death in a White Tie
1986, Jove
in English
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Death in a white tie
1986, Jove
in English
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Death in a White Tie
1980, Penguin Publishing Group, Jove
in English
Cover of: Death in a white tie
Death in a white tie
1977, Fontana
Paperback in English
Cover of: Death In A White Tie
Death In A White Tie
1963-01-01, Collins/Fontana Books
in English
Cover of: Death in a white tie.
Death in a white tie.
1960, Collins
in English
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Death in a White Tie
1938, Collins
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published, Bles. 1938.

Series
Fontana books-no.388

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.91

The Physical Object

Pagination
256p., ill., 18cm
Number of pages
256

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21760242M

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL460795W

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