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Sir John Appleby, retired chief commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, is visiting Allington Park, a partially restored estate dating back to the reign of Charles I. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John notices a bundle in the corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he says grimly, “It’s a man and I think he’s dead.” So begins a chain of events surrounding repeated deaths by misadventure—or perhaps otherwise—that includes a carefree village charity fete, an old castle, and a unique assembly of human oddities among the characters. These and a legendary lost treasure add up to what, in Sir John’s words, “that chap in Baker Street called a two-pipe mystery.”
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Death by Water, Michael Innes
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- Released
- 1982
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- Title
- Death by Water
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Innes
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Released
- 1982
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 212
- ISBN10
- 0060805749
- ISBN13
- 9780060805746
- Series
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- Sir John Appleby, retired chief commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, is visiting Allington Park, a partially restored estate dating back to the reign of Charles I. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John notices a bundle in the corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he says grimly, “It’s a man and I think he’s dead.” So begins a chain of events surrounding repeated deaths by misadventure—or perhaps otherwise—that includes a carefree village charity fete, an old castle, and a unique assembly of human oddities among the characters. These and a legendary lost treasure add up to what, in Sir John’s words, “that chap in Baker Street called a two-pipe mystery.”