- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (18 Jan 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099582708
- ISBN-13: 978-0099582700
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,651,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, very funny whodunit,
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This review is from: Death of an Old Goat (Hardcover)
The old goat in question is a touring Oxford Professor, visiting an outback Australian university. He delivers lectures on Victorian writers ... lectures which are themselves so old they qualify for a pension. And here he is, at the end of the line. The university is a blemish on a drought-ridden wilderness; as a place of learning, it suffers from an intellectual drought.The local farmers have little time for the university; the academics look down on the locals. When the old goat is found murdered in his motel room, the scene is set for the two worlds to accuse one another. Will the blundering Inspector Royle get to the truth through the morass of suspicion and mutual contempt? This is an accomplished whodunit, very funny in places, and graced throughout with undercurrents of irony and outrageous cynicism: this is humour in the Tom Sharpe vein. A simple, very well written, slow moving story, "Death of an Old Goat" will grip you and sweep you up in its crazy dynamic. If I have one criticism, it is that the ending is a tad abrupt, but, that aside, excellent ... thoroughly excellent!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, very funny whodunit,
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This review is from: Death of an Old Goat (Paperback)
The old goat in question is a touring Oxford Professor, visiting an outback Australian university. He delivers lectures on Victorian writers ... lectures which are themselves so old they qualify for a pension. And here he is, at the end of the line. The university is a blemish on a drought-ridden wilderness; as a place of learning, it suffers from an intellectual drought.The local farmers have little time for the university; the academics look down on the locals. When the old goat is found murdered in his motel room, the scene is set for the two worlds to accuse one another. Will the blundering Inspector Royle get to the truth through the morass of suspicion and mutual contempt? This is an accomplished whodunit, very funny in places, and graced throughout with undercurrents of irony and outrageous cynicism: this is humour in the Tom Sharpe vein. A simple, very well written, slow moving story, "Death of an Old Goat" will grip you and sweep you up in its crazy dynamic. If I have one criticism, it is that the ending is a tad abrupt, but, that aside, excellent ... thoroughly excellent!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, very funny whodunit,
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This review is from: Death of an Old Goat (Paperback)
The old goat in question is a touring Oxford Professor, visiting an outback Australian university. He delivers lectures on Victorian writers ... lectures which are themselves so old they qualify for a pension. And here he is, at the end of the line. The university is a blemish on a drought-ridden wilderness; as a place of learning, it suffers from an intellectual drought.The local farmers have little time for the university; the academics look down on the locals. When the old goat is found murdered in his motel room, the scene is set for the two worlds to accuse one another. Will the blundering Inspector Royle get to the truth through the morass of suspicion and mutual contempt? This is an accomplished whodunit, very funny in places, and graced throughout with undercurrents of irony and outrageous cynicism: this is humour in the Tom Sharpe vein. A simple, very well written, slow moving story, "Death of an Old Goat" will grip you and sweep you up in its crazy dynamic. If I have one criticism, it is that the ending is a tad abrupt, but, that aside, excellent ... thoroughly excellent!
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