Scales Of Justice

Name: Scales Of Justice
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405531856

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #42

Narrator: Philip Franks

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 01/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

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...
Scales of Justice was first published in 1955

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 Gillian on December 08, 2016

I made the mistake of telling my stepdad, a man with an interest in fishing, that I'd read a mystery in which the scales of a trout played a major role. 'Oh, yeah?' he said. 'How big was it?' I had completely neglected to remember this absolutely crucial piece of information and had to go back and f......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on November 11, 2017

A cute little murder mystery. But the best part is I found it on youtube read by Benedict Cumberbatch. *romantic sigh* he could make the phone book sound good. The man is a genius at acting the various roles. Oh, and the story is good, too. A who-dunnit mystery involving a fish. Apparently their sca......more