From the dw: "Two old master's, Ngaio Marsh, and her suave super-sleuth, Roderick Alleyn, return in top form in Dame Ngaio's Last Ditch." Ricky Alleyn (Chief Superintendant Roderick's son), an aspiring writer comes to the solitude of the island of the British Island off the cost of France to work on his book. Things get lively when Dulcie Harkness, a stable-hand who is headstrong, pregnant, unmarried and dead, after failing to clear a jump. By the time Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives fro London to help local police solve the murder, and investigate a lead on Drug traffic along, the French coast, son, Ricky has abandoned literature to help investigate the suspects. Quarter brown cloth spine, creme color boards, faint outline to boards. DW not price clipped, pictorial with yellow lettering. Rear DW faint outline stain. Few fox spots to page edge. All else, clean, tightly bound. First American Edition. sm 8 vo, 265 pp

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