
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DEATH IN A WHITE TIE The season has begun. Debutantes & chaperones are planning their gala dinners
- & the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up & has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first...OVERTURE TO DEATH It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall & an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck a shot rings out & Miss Campanula is dead. it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn...DEATH AT THE BAR A midsummer evening
- darts night at The Plume of Feathers a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter a celebrated actor a woman graduate a plump lady from County Clare & a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn...