A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0515079170
ISBN-13
9780451229328
Publication Date
Jan 1984
Item Weight
0.56 pounds
Length
5.00 inch
Width
7.01 inch
Height
0.98 inch
First Sentence
Nurse Kettle pushed her bicycle to the top of Watt's Hill and there paused.
Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of New Zealand’s most remarkable and charismatic women, was world-renowned as a leading crime fiction writer and as an eminent Shakespearian producer.
--ngaio-marsh.org
