Last Ditch, Ngaio Marsh
Last Ditch, Ngaio Marsh
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Last Ditch

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2005

Synopsis

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.

About Ngaio Marsh

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

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

Goodreads review by Adam

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

Goodreads review by Jj

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

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