Last Ditch
Published on 3. November 2011
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-4055-0975-6 (ISBN)
Description
Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book. However, soon enough the tedium of provincial life threatens to send him packing until, that is, he finds a dead stablehand and sleepy community's world is upturned. His father is called to take proceedings into hand, but as a darker side to island life emerges, one of illegal drugs and smuggling, Rickie goes missing. Will Ngaio Marsh's stalwart detective be able to find his son in time?
More details
Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition type
Abridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 132 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Duration
Dauer: 176 min
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4055-0975-6 (9781405509756)
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Persons
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.