A review by jerihurd
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh

3.0

I seem to be on a roll of mediocre reads. I do not understand all the glowing reviews and exclamations of "as good or better than Christie." I was looking forward to a cozy English murder--and Marsh, really, really tried to deliver that. However, it was painfully self-conscious in trying to catch that upper-crust Edwardian manner of speaking: characters named Bunchy, exclamations of "what what" and cabbies earnestly swearing "Gorblimey, governor!" I'm just surprised a pip pip and cheerio never appeared.

Aside from it all feeling so very forced, the characters just weren't all that interesting, except for one, and he was murdered ⅓ of the way through.

Christie and Sayers are safe in vying for Queen of Mystery.