Scales of justice.

256 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1955 by Collins, Collins Crime.

ISBN:
978-0-00-231722-1
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OCLC Number:
414811562

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A country Eden blooms with murderSwevenings village is pretty as a picture, but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklander's memoirs. When one of them is murdered, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's investigation takes him through petty vendettas, an ex-commander's blend of whiskey and archery, and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive he's angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...

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