num_pages: 256
description: 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...
language: English
title: Scales of Justice
titlecomplete: Scales of Justice
characters: Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 4079
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter