Inspector Alleyn42- Scales Of Justice

Ngaio Marsh

• 06 november 2008
• 9781405505093

Samenvatting:

A brutal murder with a golf club and an ingenious plot bursting with snobbery, suspicion , adultery and secrets - to say nothing of the dreadful crime of catricide...



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...