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Lament for a Maker: Volume 3

Lament for a Maker: Volume 3

Innes, Michael

Paperback

Series: Inspector Appleby Mysteries, Book 3

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1504092023
ISBN13: 9781504092029
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thri
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of Hamlet, Revenge!.

Strange things are happening around the remote Castle Erchany, located in the Scottish Highlands. The miserly and reclusive laird, Ranald Guthrie, roams the castle's freezing halls, reciting an old poem over and over: Timor mortis conturbat me. Fear of death disturbs me . . .

Then on a wild winter night, Guthrie plummets to his death from his castle's tower. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Or was it murder?

Suspicion falls on a local man, but when Insp. John Appleby arrives from the Met in London, he doubts this solution. To discover the truth, Appleby immerses himself in the dead man's final days in a gloomy, gothic castle. Of course, he must be on his guard, because there's no telling whether someone else might fall victim to another accident.

The simple-seeming and single-seeming plot of Lament for a Maker holds about as many layers of complication as a first-class mystery story could well hold without bursting, and . . . Michael Innes manages this complication with the lucidity of a master. --The Observer

Magnificently written. --The Times Literary Supplement

A grand and ghastly tale with a surprising double climax. --The New Yorker

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