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The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings—a small fishing village—are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in the beautiful stream which winds past their homes. When one of their small community is found brutally murdered, the freshly killed trout is found laid out beside him. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn must determine what killed both fish and man.
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Ngaio Marsh is the author of numerous crime novels. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original "Queens of Crime" of the 1920s and 1930s. Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor whose movies include Atonement and The Other Boleyn Girl.
Listening to SCALES OF JUSTICE is like taking a trip back to mid-twentieth-century rural England. The classes know their place, eccentricities abound, the district nurse is named Kettle, and the story has a featured cat. No accent, implication, or physical description escapes narrator Peter Wickham's sparkling presentation. When one of the local villagers is murdered, everyone is suspect. The indomitable Roderic Alleyn and his sidekick, Fox, wade through clues and fish scales (note the title) to find the culprit. The best part is an endearing romance that's totally unexpected. The vintage style of story and presentation make this a perfect audiobook. Like the works of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle, Marsh's classic mysteries will live forever. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1405505087
- ISBN 13 9781405505086
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Book Description Audiobook CD x 3. The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence ? but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish. Read by Benedict Cumberbatch. Seller Inventory # 23097438
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