Last Ditch

Young Ricky Alleyn has come to a picturesque fishing village to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. In a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. When Ricky himself disappears, the case becomes a horse of a different color for his father, Inspector Roderick Alleyn.