Overview
A London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of Hamlet, Revenge!.
Strange things are happening around the remote Castle Erchany, located in the Scottish Highlands. The miserly and reclusive laird, Ranald Guthrie, roams the castleās freezing halls, reciting an old poem over and over: Timor mortis conturbat me. Fear of death disturbs meĀ .Ā .Ā .
Then on a wild winter night, Guthrie plummets to his death from his castleās tower. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Or was it murder?
Suspicion falls on a local man, but when Insp. John Appleby arrives from the Met in London, he doubts this solution. To discover the truth, Appleby immerses himself in the dead manās final days in a gloomy, gothic castle. Of course, he must be on his guard, because thereās no telling whether someone else might fall victim to another āaccident.ā
āThe simple-seeming and single-seeming plot of Lament for a Maker holds about as many layers of complication as a first-class mystery story could well hold without bursting, andĀ .Ā .Ā . Michael Innes manages this complication with the lucidity of a master.ā āThe Observer
āMagnificently written.ā āThe Times Literary Supplement
āA grand and ghastly tale with a surprising double climax.ā āThe New Yorker
This book title, Lament for a Maker, ISBN: 9781504092029, by Michael Innes, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (February 27, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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