Last Ditch - Hardcover

Ngaio Marsh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084880578X ISBN 13: 9780848805784

Publisher: Amereon Ltd, 1976

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

From the Publisher:

'The finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an empress' - The Sun

'Rich, raffish, engagingly eccentric' - Daily Express

'She writes as beautifully as ever.' Sunday Times

About the Author:

From her first book in 1934 to her final volume just before her death in 1982, Ngaio Marsh's work has remained legendary, and is often compared to that of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. During her celebrated fifty-year career, Marsh was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, was named Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, won numerous prestigious awards, and penned 32 mystery novels.
Now St. Martin's Dead Letter Mysteries is thrilled to make all of Marsh's novels available again for old fans to relish and new ones to discover. So sit back, draw the curtains, lock the doors, and put yourself in the hands of Grande Dame of detective novels...