Book Details
Title: Last Ditch
Author: Ngairo Marsh
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: The Crime Club (Collins)
Year: 1977
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (in a plastic sleeve)
Pages: 277
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 00 231475/4
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve and therefore is well preserved. There a couple of areas of minor crinkles at edges and ends of the spine.
The hardcover is intact with hardly any shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. There is some bumping to corners and a couple of bumps to edges. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
The book does have a forward lean as pictured.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Exceptional parents do not always produce exceptional children, but Ricky, only son of Roderick and Troy Alleyn, certainly was. A very young don, he had retired to the Channel Islands during the Easter vacation, determined to write a book. Instead, he was soon in the toils of the enchanting, wealthy Pharamond family, and face to face with an unnatural death.
Was it murder? Ricky, his father's son, believed so, although it looked like an accident. When indications that the peaceful island was a drug-running centre brought Alleyn and Fox on the scene, Ricky was suddenly in mortal danger because he knew too much: about Gil Ferrant, the mysteriously wealthy plumber; about Sidney Jones, best described as a dabbler in paint; and about Louis Pharamond, his friend's cousin, cool, smooth, enigmatic - and just possibly a murderer.
Ngaio Marsh sets her scene with that amazing sense of the visual which has always invested her settings and atmospheres with something magical. Against this, her characters, portrayed with humour, skill and shrewdness, move in yet another of those classically plotted, best-selling stories which have made her deservedly and universally acknowledged as our greatest living Queen of Crime."
Book Details
Title: Last Ditch
Author: Ngairo Marsh
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: The Crime Club (Collins)
Year: 1977
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (in a plastic sleeve)
Pages: 277
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 00 231475/4
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve and therefore is well preserved. There a couple of areas of minor crinkles at edges and ends of the spine.
The hardcover is intact with hardly any shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. There is some bumping to corners and a couple of bumps to edges. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
The book does have a forward lean as pictured.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Exceptional parents do not always produce exceptional children, but Ricky, only son of Roderick and Troy Alleyn, certainly was. A very young don, he had retired to the Channel Islands during the Easter vacation, determined to write a book. Instead, he was soon in the toils of the enchanting, wealthy Pharamond family, and face to face with an unnatural death.
Was it murder? Ricky, his father's son, believed so, although it looked like an accident. When indications that the peaceful island was a drug-running centre brought Alleyn and Fox on the scene, Ricky was suddenly in mortal danger because he knew too much: about Gil Ferrant, the mysteriously wealthy plumber; about Sidney Jones, best described as a dabbler in paint; and about Louis Pharamond, his friend's cousin, cool, smooth, enigmatic - and just possibly a murderer.
Ngaio Marsh sets her scene with that amazing sense of the visual which has always invested her settings and atmospheres with something magical. Against this, her characters, portrayed with humour, skill and shrewdness, move in yet another of those classically plotted, best-selling stories which have made her deservedly and universally acknowledged as our greatest living Queen of Crime."
