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When Doctor Tudor Cornwall, Reader in Criminal
Studies at the University of Wessex, arrives for a semester as Visiting Fellow
at his old friend's university down under, he is met with a nasty surprise.
Indeed the surprises keep coming and they get nastier as the plot
unravels. An exotic cast of suspicious academics includes an
ecologically-correct axeman, a professor of wine and the world's leading
authority on an esoteric form of Australian hedgehog. Then there is the
student body to consider, too.
This mystery began as a homage to Michael
Innes's Death at the President's Lodgings, written when he too was a
visiting academic in Australia, but this sparkling novel is emphatically set
in the twenty-first century.
Published in Great Britain by
Robert Hale
Doctor Tudor Cornwall made his debut appearance
in Tim's short story for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (January 2004 ed) CRIME IN STORE
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