Ebook {Epub PDF} Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh

SCALES OF JUSTICE offers readers an opportunity that comes their way too rarely nowadays, for here is the classical detective novel at its very best. With it Ngaio Marsh returns to the genre in its absolute form: detection arising equally from character, suspense and a set of extraordinary circumstances.  · March Mystery Madness: Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh. Ma April 1, by Carol 5 Comments. In Scales of Justice, Marsh takes a calm little town, throws in a murder, and exposes the dark corners of everyone’s closets. It’s an enjoyable whodunnit. By the way, think fish scales when you read the title. Scales Of Justice By Ngaio Marsh With Dust Jacket The Book Club. $ + shipping + shipping + shipping. ViNtAgE “Death of a Peer” 1st Pocket PB Ngaio Marsh Roderick Alleyn Mystery. $ + $ shipping + $ shipping + $ shipping. Picture www.doorway.ru Rating: % positive.

Editions for Scales of Justice: (), (Kindle Edition published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in. "Scales of Justice" was my first Ngaio Marsh book. It's the eighteenth book featuring Roderick Alleyn as the upper class Scotland Yard Detective Inspector but it can be read as a stand alone with no problems. At the start of the boook, Marsh lays out the geography of the small English village the story takes place in, like a cleverly designed. Scales of Justice. —. Ngaio Marsh. The village of Swevenings was an English pastoral paradise, with its green landscape, family histories, and meandering trout stream. But even the quietest waters can be bloodied Inspector Roderick Alleyn soon discovers that murder among the blueblooded is murder -- any way you care to slice it.

Ngaio Marsh's Scales of Justice is an excellent genre mystery by a master. The murder is a puzzle and the solution ingenious. Roderick Alleyn is one of my favorite Inspectors. He has all those qualities we imagine are in the British nobility. Of all the books in the Inspector Alleyn series, Scales of Justice is the one most powerfully reminiscent of Agatha Christie, with its setting in an almost unspeakably charming little English village, and its cast of inbred aristocrats. When one of the aristos turns up dead next to the local trout-stream—with, in fact, a trout at his side—everyone is dreadfully upset, of course, but really, just a tad irritated as well: Murder is so awfully messy. Scales of Justice By Ngaio Marsh Hardcover Little Brown and Company $ Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping. Seller % positive Seller %.