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 Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
Description: ISBN 1842327321 / Author: Michael Innes / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the ... more  Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes ... President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys... 'REVIEW: 'It is quite the most accomplished first crime novel that I have read...all first-rate entertainment' (Cecil Day Lewis, Daily Telegraph) AUTHBIO: John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh, educated at Oxford, and taught English in universities all over the world. His scholarly career includes successful works on Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, but he is better known as mystery writer Michael Innes, whose legendary character, Inspector John Appleby, inspired a lasting vogue for donnish detective fiction.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 ... at the beginning of the book and I referred back to this on several occasions. Students’ and dons’ rooms are set around staircases rather than along corridors and with lockable gates it’s quite easy to establish that the murder could only have been committed by a limited number of people. Quite why fictional murderers kill in these circumstances so beloved of novelists I don’t know. They so rarely happen in real life.
If the location is finely drawn the touch with the characters is less sure. Inspector Appleby is...more |
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Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes: The first Inspector Appleby novel (740 words)
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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