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A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued in B-format.
Young Rickie Alleyn had come to the Channel Islands to try to write, but village life was tedious – until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump.
It might have ended there had Rickie not noticed some strange and puzzling things. But Rickie’s father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, had been discreetly summoned to the scene, and when Rickie disappeared, it was the last straw...
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‘Rich, raffish, engagingly eccentric.’
Daily Express
‘Age does not wither Dame Ngaio, nor custom stale her infinite variety... she writes as beautifully as ever.’
Sunday Times
‘Polished and enjoyable as ever.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘One of the best stories by the doyenne of mystery writers in the traditional British style.’
New York Times Book Review
‘The New Zealand author scores another hit with her new, impeccably written and suspenseful mystery.’
Publishers Weekly
P. I. Leo Waterman's late father was once one of the region's most powerful and colourful political characters. But just how seriously Waterman senior transgressed during his time on earth comes into question when one of "the Boys" - Leo's "residentially challenged" barfly allies - digs up a human skeleton in Dad's backyward.The remains that remain belong to "Wild Bill" Waterman's staunchest foe - an ultra-conservative muckraking journalist who vanished mysteriously thirty years before. Leo has always struggled in his father's shadow - but he's convinced that his old man was much too savvy to have committed murder - let alone to have interred the victim in his own backyard.But in order to clear his father's damaged name, the dutiful son is going to have to start digging up a very dangerous past . . . and to do his damnedest not to get buried beneath it. 'I am utterly beguiled by G. M. Ford's Leo Waterman . . . Ford writes with a toughness leavened by grace and wit' MARGARET MARON 'A fine new mystery' SEATTLE TIMES
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0006512291
- ISBN 13 9780006512295
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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