Scales of Justice. Ngaio Marsh
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Название: Scales of Justice

Автор: Ngaio Marsh

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Зарубежные детективы

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isbn: 9780007344703

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      Ngaio Marsh

      Scales of Justice

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       DEDICATION

       For Stella

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       5. Hammer Farm

       6. The Willow Grove

       7. Watt’s Hill

       8. Jacob’s Cottage

       9. Chyning and Uplands

       10. Return to Swevenings

       11. Between Hammer and Nunspardon

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       MAP

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       CAST OF CHARACTERS

Nurse Kettle
Mr Octavius Danberry-Phinn Of Jacob’s Cottage
Commander Syce
Colonel Cartarette Of Hammer Farm
Rose Cartarette His daughter
Kitty Cartarette His wife
Sir Harold Lacklander Bt. Of Nunspardon
Lady Lacklander His wife
George Lacklander Their son
Dr Mark Lacklander George’s son
Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn
Detective-Inspector Fox Of the CID New Scotland Yard
Detective-Sergeants Bailey and Thompson
Dr Curtis Pathologist
Sergeant Oliphant Of the Chyning Constabulary
PC Gripper
Sir James Punston Chief Constable of Barfordshire

       CHAPTER 1

       Swevenings

      Nurse Kettle pushed her bicycle to the top of Watt’s Hill and there paused. Sweating lightly, she looked down on the village of Swevenings. Smoke rose in cosy plumes from one or two chimneys; roofs cuddled into surrounding greenery. The Chyne, a trout stream, meandered through meadow and coppice and slid blamelessly under two bridges. It was a circumspect landscape. Not a faux-pas, architectural or horticultural, marred the seemliness СКАЧАТЬ