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In 1936 Professor John Innes Mackintosh Stewart set sail to become professor of English at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia. To amuse himself on the long voyage he wrote "''Death at the President's Lodgings" '' under the pen name of Michael Innes. This was the first in a long series of detective novels starring Inspector John Appleby. It's a good story and as a first novel it's something special.
The body of Dr Umpleby, President of St Anthony's College is discovered in his study, with his head swathed in a gown and surrounded by bones. The murderer must be one of seven men as they were the only people with keys to the area surrounding the study. Inspector Appleby is called in to investigate the classic locked-room mystery.
