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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael InnesSeries:Inspector Appleby MysteriesPublish date:2024-02-27Pages:270
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Media Mystery & ThriISBN-13:9781504092029ISBN-10:1504092023UPC:9781504092029Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Crime, World LiteratureBook Topic:Traditional, EnglandSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.76Product ID:SC973M80MV
A London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of Hamlet, Revenge!.
Strange things are happening around the remote Castle Erchany, located in the Scottish Highlands. The miserly and reclusive laird, Ranald Guthrie, roams the castle's freezing halls, reciting an old poem over and over: Timor mortis conturbat me. Fear of death disturbs me . . . Then on a wild winter night, Guthrie plummets to his death from his castle's tower. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Or was it murder? Suspicion falls on a local man, but when Insp. John Appleby arrives from the Met in London, he doubts this solution. To discover the truth, Appleby immerses himself in the dead man's final days in a gloomy, gothic castle. Of course, he must be on his guard, because there's no telling whether someone else might fall victim to another "accident." "The simple-seeming and single-seeming plot of Lament for a Maker holds about as many layers of complication as a first-class mystery story could well hold without bursting, and . . . Michael Innes manages this complication with the lucidity of a master." --The Observer "Magnificently written." --The Times Literary Supplement "A grand and ghastly tale with a surprising double climax." --The New YorkerLanguages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Media Mystery & ThriISBN-13:9781504092029ISBN-10:1504092023UPC:9781504092029Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Crime, World LiteratureBook Topic:Traditional, EnglandSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.76Product ID:SC973M80MV
Michael Innes (1906-1994) was the pseudonym of John Innes MacKintosh "J.I.M." Stewart. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotlandeducated at Oxford, and taught English at universities in the UK and Australia. Writing as J.I.M. Stewart he published a number of scholarly works, mainly critical studies of authors, including Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, as well as more than twenty works of fiction and a memoir. As Michael Innes, he published numerous mystery novels and short story collections, most featuring the Scotland Yard detective Inspector John Appleby.
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