Roderick Alleyn

Scales of Justice

Ngaio Marsh First published 1955

About this book

A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...

Roderick Alleyn · 30 books

In publication order
  1. Spinsters in Jeopardy 1954
  2. Scales of Justice 1955 This book
  3. Off With His Head 1957
  4. Singing in the Shrouds 1959
All 30 in order

Subjects

  • alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction
  • crime, fiction
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • investigation
  • murder
  • open library staff picks
  • police
  • roderick alleyn (fictitious character)