Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque
fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town
offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one
of all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose
last leap was anything but an accident. And when Ricky himself
disappears, the case becomes a horse of a different color for his father,
Inspector Roderick Alleyn.


Ngaio Marsh, a native New Zealander whose name means "flowering tree" in Maori, was a detective story writer and theatrical producer. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her classic mysteries. The continuing popularity of her hero, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, has assured her a lasting place among the world's top mystery authors.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.