

Last Ditch
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Narrator: Nadia May
Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/23/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Narrator: Nadia May
Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/23/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.
A very entertaining book for me. I only recently learned of Alleyn's son Ricky in the book Spinsters in Jeopardy where he is introduced as a very bright little 6 year-old boy. Whether he appears in any other books in the series I am unaware, not having read all of them. This book places Ricky, at 21......more
Late career Ngaio Marsh, based in the Channel Islands. Much of this book centres on the now Chief Superintendent Alleyn’s son, a writer taking a break on the island who becomes tangled in a murder and drug smuggling ring. On the one hand, it’s great to meet Alleyn’s son gown up, but on the other the b......more
My impression of Ricky from the first book still stands - he's too precious, and how he managed to bumble his way into every step of the investigation and leave nothing for the second investigation was too much. Still, he was a nice change of pace from his too suave and bland Papa. I'm glad he didn'......more