NGAIO MARSH Overture to Death This novel is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Harper An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF Published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009 Overture to Death first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1939 Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1939 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780006512585 Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007344468 Version: 2016-09-12
For the Sunday Morning Party:
G. M. LESTER DUNDAS AND CECIL WALKER NORMAN AND MILES STACPOOLE BATCHELOR & My Father CONTENTS
14 According to the Jernighams
21 According to Mr Saul Tranter
26 Miss Prentice feels the Draught
Jocelyn Jernigham
Of Pen Cuckoo
Henry Jernigham
His son
Eleanor Prentice
His cousin
Taylor
