Last Ditch - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 051508798X ISBN 13: 9780515087987

Publisher: Jove Pubns, 1993

Synopsis

On a beautiful island off the coast of France, Ricky Alleyn finds inspiration for a novel in the death of an equestrienne who rode as recklessly as she lived. Original.

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Review:

"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." --"New York "magazine

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Jove Pubns
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 051508798X
• ISBN 13: 9780515087987
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback