Scales of Justice

Ngaio Marsh

Language: English

Published: Oct 14, 1955

Description:

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--¦

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--¦