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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Ampersand Papers (1978)di Michael Innes
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() One of the better late Innes, told with a tone of irony throughout. In the first part, we learn about the papers at Treskinnick, the home of the Marquis of Ampersand, which may include important literary material of the English romantics (Shelley et al.). Sir John Appleby enters the picture when he is nearly killed by the collapse of a wooden staircase onto the beach below Treskinnick. Dr. Sutch, the scholar employed by Lord Ampersand to investigate the papers, has actually died in this collapse, so Appleby finds himself investigating what really happened at Treskinnick. Definitely one of the weaker of the later Appleby novels. It starts well with a comic upper-crust family living in a Cornish castle finding that a relation may have left some valuable literary papers, and bringing in a researcher to look into it. The murder itself (the researcher falls from a high staircase practically on top of Sir John himself) is arresting, but from then on it fails to arouse much interest, and the solution is a let-down (as often with the later Innes). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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While Appleby is strolling along a Cornish beach, he narrowly escapes being struck by a body falling down a cliff. The body is that of Dr Sutch, an archivist, and he has fallen from the North Tower of Treskinnick Castle, home of Lord Ampersand. Two possible motivations present themselves to Appleby - the Ampersand gold, treasure from an Armada galleon; and the Ampersand papers, valuable family documents that have associations with Wordsworth and Shelley. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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