NGAIO MARSH
Death at the Bar
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persosn, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Death at the Bar first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1940
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Source ISBN: 9780006512356
Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007344475
Version: 2016-09-08
For My Friends in the Dunedin Repertory Society
CONTENTS
12 Curious Behaviour of Mr Legge
18 Mr Legge Commits a Misdemeanour
19 The Chief Constable as Watson
| Luke Watchman, KC | |
| Sebastian Parish | His cousin |
| Norman Cubitt, RA | |
| Abel Pomeroy | Proprietor, Plume of Feathers, Devon |
| Will Pomeroy | His son |
| Mrs Ives | Housekeeper at the Plume of Feathers |
| The Hon Violet Darragh | Of County Clare, Ireland |
| Robert Legge | Secretary and Treasurer to the CoombeLeft Movement |
| George Nark | Farmer, of Ottercombe |
| Decima Moore | Of Cary Edge Farm and of Oxford |
| Dr Shaw | Police Surgeon, Illington |
| Nicholas Harper | Superintendent of Police, Illington |