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...
- Publish Date 1964
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fontana Press
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 256
- Language English