Lord Mullion's Secret

Innes, Michael

ISBN 10: 0140065210 / ISBN 13: 9780140065213

Editore: Penguin, Harmondsworth, England, 1983

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Spine/covers a bit creased, slight shelf wear. A few scribblings penned on front FEP. "When Honeybath travels to Mullion Castle to paint a portrait of Lady Mullion (the wife of an old schoolfriend), he finds himself in the midst of a delightfully eccentric family - and some rather intriguing puzzles. Who, for example, has removed the valuable miniature portrait of Lord Mullion's ancestor -- and why? Can it be connected in any way to the recent appearance of some long-forgotten sketches drawn by Lord Mullion's dotty Great-aunt Camilla? And just how does the handsome young gardener (a bit more ambitious than his station seems to warrant) fit into the mysterious happenings? Honeybath addresses himself to these and other teasing problems in this witty, engaging, and surprising tale of aristocratic idiosyncrasies and secrets that only Michael Innes could have conceived. "; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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• Titolo: Lord Mullion's Secret
• Editore: Penguin, Harmondsworth, England
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140065210
• ISBN 13: 9780140065213
• Rilegatura: Mass Market Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Mystery

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Riassunto

Painter Charles Honeybath is hired by his old schoolfellow, Lord Mullion, to paint a portrait of his wife but becomes involved in a strange series of intriguing puzzles

L'autore

Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholar. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, 'Death at the President's Lodging'. With his second, 'Hamlet Revenge', Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the 'Journeying Boy', a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. His most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is 'Honeybath', the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in 'The Mysterious Commission'. The last novel, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. 'A master - he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go.' - Times Literary Supplement.