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.

Death of an old goat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ROBERT BARNARD

Mystery

Collins [for] the Crime Club

Sheer Torture

HarperCollins Distribution Services

A Talent to An Appreciation of Agatha Christie Includes the definitive bibliography and filmography

A TALENT TO DECEIVE : An Appreciation of Agatha Christie

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Fontana

"When two teenagers go missing from the same school, Detective Constable Charlie Peace is puzzled, because none of their friends seem to know of any connection between them. Then he finds them working in a hostel for the homeless and his decision to leave them there gets severely tested."

No Place of Safety

Harpercollins

Unruly Son

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Death of an Old Goat

To Die Like a Gentleman

Macmillan

Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cozy Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Bronte manuscript. Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn't realize that for a criminal the manuscript is motive for theft, torture--and murder.

CASE/MISSING BRONTE

Action & Adventure

Dell

Death and the Chaste Apprentice

An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and a murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedy

Humor & Satire

Dell Publishing, Inc.

Out of the Blackout

GORGI

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