Last Ditch

 

by Ngaio Marsh (read by Nadia May) c. 1976

Roderick Alleyn, Book 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 06-06-05

Language: English

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

ASIN:  B0009W0496

Publisher's Summary 

Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque  fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town  offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of  all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. And when Ricky himself  disappears, the case becomes a horse of a different color for his  father, Inspector Roderick Alleyn.          

And not a baby any more makes three

 

Father and son share the scene.  This one was a lot fun in a leisure suit and drug squad kind of way. I like the way that Ngaio Marsh has kept up with the times and used it to her advantage. Alleyn is at once timeless and dated.  Timeless because he is accepting of the world around him but dated because he seems just a bit out of step with the times and very much an elder statesman. All in all, Marsh balances the yin and the yang of Alleyn and of the story.

Four stars to an author who  has kept up with times and kept her writing fresh.