Scales Of Justice

Ngaio Marsh

nov. 2008 · Inspector Alleyn Bok 42 · Little, Brown Book Group · Lest av Benedict Cumberbatch

Om denne lydboken

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...

Om forfatteren

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' -- female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s.