Category: Fiction: Mystery & Suspense

Copyright/published Year: 1977 by Little Brown

ISBN: 0316546747

Binding: hardcover

Description: Last Ditch is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the ì twenty-ninth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first ì published in 1977. The plot concerns drug smuggling in the ì Channel Islands, and features Alleyn's son, Ricky, in a central ì role. Horseplay turns deadly... Young Ricky Alleyn has come to ì the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Through ì the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to ì find the most distracting one of all: murder. For in a muddy ì ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything ì but an accident. And when Ricky himself disappears, the case ì becomes a horse of a different color for his father, Inspector ì Roderick Alleyn

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

1977 Book Club hardcover. Jacket has a 1/2"-3/4" missing from bottom of spine. Jacket in mylar protector. Clean and unmarked copy. Sound, square binding.