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Ngaio Marsh
Death in a White Tie Table of Contents
Chapter 3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party
Chapter 6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard
Chapter 11 Captain Withers at Home
Chapter 12 Report from a Waiter
Chapter 13 Dimitri Cuts His Fingers
Chapter 16 Lady Carrados Looks Back
Chapter 17 The Element of Youth
Chapter 18 Predicament of a Secretary
Chapter 21 Statement by Lucy Lorrimer
Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, CID
Lady Alleyn
His mother
Sarah Alleyn
His débutante niece
Miss Violet Harris
Secretary to Lady Carrados
Lady Evelyn Carrados
A London hostess
Bridget O’Brien
Her daughter
Sir Herbert Carrados
Her husband
Lord Robert Gospell (‘Bunchy’)
A relic of Victorian days
Sir Daniel Davidson
A fashionable London physician
Agatha Troy, RA
A painter
Lady Mildred Potter
Lord Robert’s widowed sister
Donald Potter
Her son—a medical student
Mrs Halcut-Hackett
A social climber
General Halcut-Hackett
Her husband
Miss Rose Birnbaum
Her protégée
Captain Maurice Withers (‘Wits’)
A man about town
Colombo Dimitri
A fashionable caterer
Lucy, Dowager Marchioness of Lorrimer
An eccentric old lady
A Taxi-driver
Miss Smith
A friend of Miss Harris
Detective-Inspector Fox, CID
Percy Percival
A young man about town
Mr Trelawney-Caper
His friend
James d’Arcy Carewe
A detective-constable
François Dupont
Dimitri’s servant
Mr Cuthbert
Manager of the Matador
Vassily
Alleyn’s servant
The Reverend Walter Harris
A retired clergyman
Mrs Walter Harris
His wife
The Assistant Commissioner
