Last Ditch
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First published in 1977, the impeccable 29th novel featuring Roderick Alleyn Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn, had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book. However, soon enough the tedium of provincial life threatens to send him packing, until, that is, he finds a dead stablehand and the sleepy community's world is upturned. His father is called to take proceedings into hand, but as a darker side to island life emerges, one of illegal drugs and smuggling, Rickie goes missing. Will Ngaio Marsh's stalwart detective be able to find his son in time? Abridged.
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Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original "Queens of Crime"—female crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s. Tim Bentinck is a voiceover artist and an actor best known for his role in The Archers.
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"One of the best stories by the doyenne of mystery writers in the traditional British style." —New York Times Book Review"Impeccably written and suspenseful." —Publishers Weekly
