Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys...

Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327321 (July, 2002), 254 p., $11.50.

Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
'Just beside the President's grotesquely muffled head lay a human skull. And over the surrounding area of the floor were scattered little piles of human bones.'

Inspector John Appleby has a difficult and delicate task when he investigates the murder of the unpopular Josiah Umpleby of St Anthony's College. The crime is at once intriguing and bizarre, efficient and theatrical - and, intellectually, it is the most challenging crime of his career. For Appleby must pick his way through the malicious gossip and learned squabbles of the college's brightest academics and sift through an embarrassment of clues - genuine and planted.

But with the unexpected aid of three precocious undergraduates - and the St Anthony's burglar - a subtle killer is unmasked and the devious dons find that the oddest thing about the case is Appleby himself...

Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging. Penguin, ISBN: 0140105557 (April, 1992), 275 p., £5.99.

Michael Innes: Seven Suspects (1984)

From the Publisher:
AT ST. ANTHONY'S COLLEGE, INSPECTOR JOHN APPLEBY MUST CONTEND WITH ACADEMIC INTRIGUES, SCHOLARLY SCANDALS, AND ONE VERY CLEVER KILLER.
Murder in the sanctity of an English university was bad enough; but such a vulgar, ungentlemanly murder -- bones scattered about the room, a grotesque drawing of grinning death's-heads scrawled on the wall, and poor President Umpleby's head wrapped in an academic robe -- was a serious blot on the college's reputation.

In this complex and brilliantly resolved mystery Inspector John Appleby matches wits with some of the smartest -- and most devious -- suspects he has ever encountered.

"Closely knit, erudite, engagingly written...[an] always interesting tale of great intellects gone murderously askew" Saturday Review
"Michael Innes is a master." -- The Times Literary Supplement

Originally published in the United Kingdom as Death at the President's Lodging

Michael Innes: Seven Suspects. An Sir John Appleby Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140068864 (July, 1984), 275 p., £1.95, $3.50.

Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging (UK 1976)

From the Publisher:
An academic life, Dr Johnson observed, puts one little in the way of extraordinary casualties. This was not the experience of the Fellows and scholars of St Anthony's College when they awoke one raw November morning to find their President, Josiah Umpleby, murdered in the night. The crime was at once intriguing and bizarre, efficient and theatrical. It was efficient because nobody knew who had committed it. And it was theatrical because of a macabre and unnecessary act of fantasy with which the criminal, it was quickly rumoured, had accompanied the deed...

'Michael Innes is a master - he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go' - The Times Literary Supplement

Michael Innes: Death at the President's Lodging. Penguin, ISBN: 0140012869 (February, 1976), 223 p., 60p.