- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (14 Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006157777
- ISBN-13: 978-0006157779
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 761,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Winner of a Crime Writers’
Association
‘Red Herring Award’
in 1955
‘The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Excellently characterized, Miss Marsh’s best yet. Observer
‘The detection is first class. The whole affair is written with style and distinction.’
BBC
‘The finest writer in the English languange of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit. Among the crime queens, Ngaio Marsh stands out as an Empress.’
The Sun
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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...
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
One of my favourite Ngaio Marsh novels. The "rampant snobbery" is no more obvious in this book than in most of the other Roderick Alleyn stories, where he is constantly mistaken by his upper class suspects as "one of themselves" and the more earthy Inspector Fox perceived as the lower class norm of policing in the Marsh landscape. It was of the period, and Alleyn, although an actual policeman, followed in the footsteps and the tradition of Lord Peter Wimsey and Albert Campion.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Scales of Justice (Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mysteries)
So glad I found this book....couldn't live without knowing what happens in the end, having missed the TV version ending! Arrived promptly and in good condition.
So glad I found this book....couldn't live without knowing what happens in the end, having missed the TV version ending! Arrived promptly and in good condition.
1 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Decent mystery ruined by rampant snobbery. It quickly becomes obvious who the killer will be. The author raises some interesting ideas about the difference between the classes but the notion that the actions of those who are deemed the right sort of people impact negatively on those who aren't is not fully held up to scrutiny.
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