- Fiction, Police, Sir Appleby, John (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
Murder at Scamnum Court, the grandest of England's stately homes, a treasure-house guarded only by the marble deities that line its terraces. And murder during a performance of *Hamlet*, played on an Elizabethan stage erected in the Banqueting Hall, and with a cast that includes the Duke of Horton as Claudius, his duchess as Gertrude, and the greatest of English actors, Melville Clay, as Hamlet. And a victim of no less eminence than the Lord Chancellor. - from back cover
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- J. I. M. Stewart
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Editions 10/18, Dodd, Mead, Ipso Books
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781842327371
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"John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other 'identity', and vice-versa." - Wikipedia
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