Last Ditch Library Edition Author:Ngaio Marsh Young Richie Alleyn had come to the island to try to write, but village life was tedious - until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump. It might have ended there had Richie not noticed some strange and puzzling things. But Richie's father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, had been discreetly summoned to ... more »the scene, and when Richie disappeared, it was the last straw...« less