Scales Of Justice

Ngaio Marsh

Nov 2008 · Inspector Alleyn Book 42 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch

About this audiobook

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...

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' -- female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s.