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by Michael Innes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 346 pages
  • Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (31 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842327402
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842327401
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 586,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead at a cinema, Mr Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies, kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security. 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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Irish Thriller, 27 April 2001
This is, as Innes points out, "milder sensational fiction, nicely top-dressed with a compost of literature and the arts, which is produced by idle persons living in colleges and rectories." Happily, Innes avoids his usual habit of having "the situation ... degenerate from melodrama into rough-and-tumble farce."

The plot is in two (later three) view-points, and deals with the assassination of a public school tutor in a situation strongly reminiscent of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Hitchcock, not Chesterton), this relataed to impersonation in order to kidnap the boy hero, a physicist's son. The boy and the replacement tutor ar seen from one angle (action / adventure), while the mystery of the tutor's death is undertaken by Inspector Cadover, who also appeared in WHAT HAPPENED AT HAZELWOOD and A PRIVATE VIEW. The shift in viewpoints keeps the reader from being bored, and so adds to rather than detracts from the whole. Irish dialogue is also good - although nowhere near as good as the Scottish in Innes' masterpiece, LAMENT FOR A MAKER.

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