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eAudiobook Ngaio Marsh
1) Last ditch
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2000 | 1st paperbacks ed. | St. Martin's Press | 277 p. ; 18 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Marsh, N |
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Ricky Alleyn, son of the renowned police detective Roderick Alleyn, has taken himself 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, so all is beer and skittles until Ricky stumbles across a murder and then gets himself kidnapped. Naturally his father rushes to the island to save the day ...
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| [1956] | [1st ed.] | Little, Brown | 302 p. 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Marsh, N |
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The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There's squabbling, of course, and worse-like when one of the ritual's main players is found beheaded, everything north of his neck having been neatly lopped off by a ritual sword. Inspector Alleyn does have to contain a certain incredulous...
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