Avery's Mission - Brossura

Stewart, J.I.M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755130367 ISBN 13: 9780755130368

Casa editrice: House of Stratus, 2012

Riassunto

Bannerman is a schoolmaster on his way to Florence to do some research. On the plane, he meets a recent pupil, Avery Brenton, who is traveling to see his divorced father. However, Avery is young and naïve and is being unwittingly used by his domineering mother. Bannerman finds himself being drawn into matters. Avery’s father is working on a lifetime study of Italian art and is not that pleased to see him. Enter Mrs. Mountpatrick, a friend of Avery’s mother, along with another youth who is helping his father. Very soon, a delightfully entangled and complex situation develops, only to be exacerbated by the arrival of Avery’s mother, a dominatrix who uses sex appeal and a natural upper-class manner to exert her will. The tale is told by Bannerman as narrator and is full of suspense to delight the reader right up to the unexpected end.

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L'autore:

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh in 1906 and attended Edinburgh Academy before going up to Oriel College, Oxford. By 1935, he had been awarded the jury chair at the University of Adelaide in Australia as professor of English and had also completed his first detective novel, Death at the President’s Lodging, published under the pseudonym Michael Innes. This was an immediate success and part of a long-running series centered on Inspector Appleby, his primary character when writing as Innes. There were almost fifty titles under the Innes banner completed during his career. In 1946, Stewart returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University in Belfast, before being appointed Student (Fellow and Tutor) at Christ Church, Oxford. He was later to hold the post of Reader in English Literature of Oxford University and upon his retirement was made an emeritus professor.

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• Editore: House of Stratus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0755130367
• ISBN 13: 9780755130368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 190