Photo Finish (novel) is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-first, and penultimate, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1980. The novel takes place on a millionaire's private island in New Zealand, and features the world premiere of an opera entitled The Alien Corn, after the Biblical story of Ruth. The novel's central character bears a striking resemblance to Maria Callas.
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Famous quotes containing the words photo and/or finish:
“A photo of someone elses childhood,
a garden in another countryworld
he had no part in and has no power to imagine:
yet the old man who has failed his memory
keens over the picture Them happy days
gonegone for ever!”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. Dyou know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other mens left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)