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Sinister things are afoot at Beaufort College, Oxford. While the College Fellows rally themselves to hire a professional appeals organiser to raise money to restore their crumbling buildings, the Beaufort Letter, a priceless part of the College's library is stolen. Next, one of the most respected dons in the College is found propped up at his desk with a large dent in his head. As if this is not enough, another murder is to follow, even more gruesome than the last: a don is found strangled, dumped at a book basket at the railway station. To add insult to fatal injury, the deed has been done with a Beaufort tie. Inspector Barnaby of the local police is called to investigate, but the case is not solved before several other unsavoury events are brought to light.
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Graham Roberts is Lecturer in Communication Arts at the Institute of Communications, University of Leeds. Heather Wallis is Lecturer in Film Studies at Leeds College of Art and Design.
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Unabashed Anglophiles will thrill to the richly accented baritone and virtuosity of Graham Roberts. His theatricality adds the perfect note of pomposity to the Oxford dons of Beaufort College, making their provincial lives humorous, slightly ridiculous, and occasionally pathetic. When an irreplaceable manuscript is stolen from the college library, everyone is suddenly suspect, from students to faculty to a visiting scholar from America. Everyone is hiding something, and then the murders begin. Graham Roberts approaches Howard Shaw's entertaining mystery with congenial familiarity. DEATH OF A DON is a police procedural in which a pleasantly plodding police inspector, Inspector Barnaby, slowly but surely pieces together a deadly puzzle with extremely non-academic consequences. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0340276436
- ISBN 13 9780340276433
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages187
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