Scales Of Justice

Ngaio Marsh

Jan. 2016 · Inspector Alleyn Buch 18 · Little, Brown Book Group · Vorgelesen von Philip Franks

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The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes.

Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish...
Scales of Justice was first published in 1955

Autoren-Profil

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was deemed one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s. She was knighted a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966. Ngaio Marsh died in 1982. Scales of Justice was first published in 1955