The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish...
- ISBN10 0312966717
- ISBN13 9780312966713
- Publish Date 15 January 1999 (first published 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 February 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 256
- Language English