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Scales of Justice

โœ Scribed by Ngaio Marsh


Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
1955
Tongue
en-US
Weight
179 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


A brutal murder with a golf club and an ingenious plot bursting with snobbery, suspicion , adultery and secrets --" to say nothing of the dreadful crime of catricide--ยฆ

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--โ„ขs murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish--ยฆ


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