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Ngaio Marsh. Death in a White Tie
The Characters in the Tale
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Protagonists
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CHAPTER 2 Bunchy
CHAPTER 3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party
CHAPTER 4 Blackmail to Music
CHAPTER 5 Unqualified Success
CHAPTER 6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard
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CHAPTER 7 Stop Press News
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VII
CHAPTER 8 Troy and Alleyn
CHAPTER 9 Report from Mr Fox
CHAPTER 10 Donald
CHAPTER 11 Captain Withers at Home
CHAPTER 12 Report from a Waiter
CHAPTER 13 Dimitri Cuts His Fingers
CHAPTER 14 Davidson Digresses
CHAPTER 15 Simple Soldier-man
CHAPTER 16 Lady Carrados Looks Back
CHAPTER 17 The Element of Youth
CHAPTER 18 Predicament of a Secretary
CHAPTER 19 The General
CHAPTER 20 Rose Birnbaum
CHAPTER 21 Statement by Lucy Lorrimer
CHAPTER 22 Night Club
CHAPTER 23 Donald on Wits
CHAPTER 24 The Dance Is Wound Up
CHAPTER 25 Benefit of Clergy
CHAPTER 26 Alleyn Plots a Dénouement
CHAPTER 27 Interlude for Love
CHAPTER 28 Alleyn Marshals the Protagonists
CHAPTER 29 Climax
CHAPTER 30 Confessions from Troy
Epilogue
Copyright
About the Publisher
Cover Page
Title Page
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A tall, dark girl carrying a pile of letters came into the room. Bridget was very like her mother but nobody would have thought of comparing her to the Sistine Madonna. She had inherited too much of Paddy O’Brien’s brilliance for that. There was a fine-drawn look about her mouth. Her eyes, set wide apart, were deep under strongly marked brows. She had the quality of repose but when she smiled all the corners of her face tipped up and then she looked more like her father than her mother. ‘Sensitive,’ thought Miss Harris, with a mild flash of illumination. ‘I hope she stands up to it all right. Nuisance when they get nerves.’ She returned Bridget’s punctilious ‘Good morning’ and watched her kiss her mother.
‘Darling Donna,’ said Bridget, ‘you are so sweet.’
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