Last Ditch: 29 (Inspector Roderick Alleyn) - Softcover

Marsh, Ngaio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163194052X ISBN 13: 9781631940521

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, 2016

Synopsis

Ricky Alleyn perhaps you know his father, Roderick? first appeared in Spinsters in Jeopardy, as a child. He s now 21, and has taken himself off to a secluded island to write a novel. Or think about writing a novel. Or look for distractions so he can avoid writing a novel. The distractions abound, mostly in the form of colorful local characters (and a rather dishy one), so all is beer and skittles (well, except for the novel) until Ricky stumbles across a murder and then gets himself kidnapped. Which is too bad for Ricky (and the murder-victim), but dandy for the reader, as it brings Inspector Alleyn to the island, and he s on top form. A subtheme involving drug-running may strike a jarring note, but remember, Last Ditch was first published in 1977, and as such, it offers a remarkable look at what happens when the characters and conventions of the Golden Age fetch up in the distinctly tarnished present."

About this title

Review:

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

From the Back Cover:

THE ALLEYN MYSTERIES

Young Rickie Alleyn had come to the island 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...

"Rich, raffish, engagingly eccentric."
DAILY EXPRESS

"She writes as beautifully as ever"
SUNDAY TIMES

"The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an express."
THE SUN

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 163194052X
• ISBN 13: 9781631940521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288