Last Ditch
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816165377 (0816165378)
Publish date: December 1st 1977
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Pages no: 486
Edition language: English
Series: Roderick Alleyn 1 (#29)
The second appearance of Ricky Alleyn, who makes a good showing at the beginning of the novel, managing to nicely encompass aspects of both his parents, but then unfortunately catches a bad case of too-stupid-to-live and fades off the screen. More a 2.5 than 3 star novel, dragging considerably in t...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. A companion piece to Clutch of Constables, in that another of Alleyn's loved ones, this time his son Ricky, gets involved with the criminals. Ricky is a young man with a talent for writing who falls for a striking older woman. Striking older woman is part of a rat...