Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
Author(s): Ngaio Marsh
Audiobooks | Fiction - General
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...
Read by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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'The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers' Times Literary Supplement 'Excellently characterized, Miss Marsh's best yet. Observer 'The detection is first class. The whole affair is written with style and distinction.' BBC 'The finest writer in the English languange of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.' The Sun
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.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.108862
- : 01 November 2008
- : 142mm X 124mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ngaio Marsh
- : Audiobook CD x 3
- : English
- : 823
- : 3 CD's
