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Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing Australia, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for, shortly after an undistinguished appearance at Drummondale University, the doddering old professor is found brutally murdered. Police Inspector Royle probes the possible motives of the motley crew of academics at Drummondale, and an hilarious, highly satirical portrait of life down under emerges.
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- PublisherCollins [for] the Crime Club
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0002311984
- ISBN 13 9780002311984
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Book Description Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), red boards (gilt title on spine), jacket chipped (flap price-clipped, small edge tears minimal loss, faint foxing & toning reverse side), edges lightly foxed, slight toning pages, some edgewear, owner's name free flyleaf. 190 pp. (Death of an Old Goat, by Robert Barnard: Crime Club / William Collins, London, 1974.) This mystery novel, set in Australia, is the first novel by prolific crime fiction novelist Robert Barnard. Drummondale was not one of Australia's most distinguished seats of learning, but then Professor Belville-Smith was hardly one of England's most distinguished exports. He came, he saw, he lectured (on Mrs Gaskell and Jane Austen) - and a few hours later he was found violently and mysteriously dead. Who could have committed the crime? Inspector Royle has to find the killer. The book is a very funny send-up of university life 'down under'. The author spent six years at an Australian university, which he says has a passing resemblance to Drummondale through the staff are completely distinct. He enjoyed his stay in Australia, and met his Australian wife there. Seller Inventory # 40857
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