Death at the President’s Lodging

Excellent! Enthralling and entertaining.

Having read this many years ago, I was thrilled to see this again available, and I must say I did enjoy it again. Although I must be getting a little older as I found myself a little lost in all the timings, nevertheless it was a very clever written book with very likeable characters. It is a typical British University mystery, light and involved - it was lovely revisiting the book.

'A most embarrassing wealth of clues'

This is a lightly-fun old skool mystery with a complicated plot involving lots of suspects who drag bodies around a college garden, contrive ingenious mechanisms, and generally lie to thwart suspicions - luckily Inspector Appleby is a suitably erudite gentleman and well able to get to the bottom of who killed the college president. Good if you like unravelling intellectual clues rather than racing around with lots of pace and action.

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The first of a famous between-the-wars series in which Inspector Appleby saves the day and Michael Innes contributed to that era known as 'the golden age'. Well, yes, in today's world that hierarchy of deference seems very far away--and a good thing, too. But we must agree that this is fanciful, and that it fancifully combines undergraduate men as well as the dons who didn't teach them very much, in a closed world accustomed to policing itself. So, who shot the Master is the question upon which the investigation turns, here like a locked-room puzzle, there more like a conga-line of dislike, even despising colleagues. Read it with paper at hand, and keep track, or you may despair of recognizing the large cast of character.

I love the Appleby books and this is the first one. As all the others it's witty, intelligent and maybe a bit confusing, but a real fun read! The setting especially is very well done.

An excellent whodunnit with such beautiful writing.