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Description: ISBN 1842327321 / Author: Michael Innes / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the ... more Newest Review: ... or Cambridge but a hybrid of the two set somewhere around Bletchley, as the author explains. A plan of the college is given ... more |
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by SueMagee - written on 08/12/05 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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In 1936 Professor John Innes Mackintosh Stewart set sail to become professor of English at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia. To amuse himself on the long voyage he wrote “Death at the President’s Lodgings” under the pen name of Michael Innes. This was the first in a long series of detective novels starring Inspector John Appleby. It’s a good story and as a first novel it’s something special. The body of Dr Umpleby, President of St Anthony’s College is discovered in his study, with his head swathed in a gown and surrounded by bones. The murderer must be one of seven men as they were the only people with keys to the area surrounding the study. ...
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