The Weight Of The Evidence by Michael Innes

The Weight Of The Evidence by Michael Innes

Nesfield University has awoken to a bizarre discovery: Professor Pluckrose is dead, apparently struck down by a falling meteorite. Inspector Appleby is called and it soon becomes clear that the meteorite didn't fall from the sky, but from the tower looming above a courtyard in which the Professor routinely took his breaks. Was Pluckrose's death an unfortunate accident? Or is there a murderer lurking in Nesfield's hallowed halls? Navigating the competing accounts of rival academics, each with their own motivations, agendas and egos, Appleby struggles to join the dots. And when every conversation unveils a new suspect Appleby feels the truth slipping further and further from his grasp. Drawn in to the suffocating world of university jealousies and obsessions, will Appleby reveal the truth. or has he finally met his intellectual match?

Innes, Michael: - Michael Innes is the pseudonym of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 - 12 November 1994). Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under his pseudonym. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other identity, and vice versa. Innes published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections in his lifetime, but is best known for creating Detective Inspector Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, who eventually through the course of the later novels becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He attended Edinburgh Academy, and later studied English literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Having lectured in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, he would then become Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Once he returned to the United Kingdom he lectured at Queens, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he was a professor of the university. He died in Coulsdon.

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ISBN 13	9781842327586
ISBN 10	1842327585
Title	The Weight Of The Evidence
Author	Michael Innes
Series	Inspector Appleby
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	House of Stratus
Year published	2008-09-23
Number of pages	238
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