Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
An erudite Scotland Yard detective investigates after a professor meets a hellish end with a heavenly body in this classic British mystery.
When Professor Pluckrose is found dead in his deckchair on the campus of a provincial English university, it looks as though the eminent biochemist was struck by a falling meteorite. But this was no act of God -- the stone was dropped from a nearby tower.

With the local authorities baffled, Scotland Yard's Insp. John Appleby is asked to consult on the case. Combing the hallowed halls for information, Appleby finds plenty of pompous academics with their own theories about the murder -- as well as their own motives. Appleby must study the clues thoroughly if he hopes to determine who among them has a mind for murder.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092265 (April, 2024), 252 p., $21.99.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
An erudite Scotland Yard detective investigates after a professor meets a hellish end with a heavenly body in this classic British mystery.
When Professor Pluckrose is found dead in his deckchair on the campus of a provincial English university, it looks as though the eminent biochemist was struck by a falling meteorite. But this was no act of God -- the stone was dropped from a nearby tower.

With the local authorities baffled, Scotland Yard's Insp. John Appleby is asked to consult on the case. Combing the hallowed halls for information, Appleby finds plenty of pompous academics with their own theories about the murder -- as well as their own motives. Appleby must study the clues thoroughly if he hopes to determine who among them has a mind for murder.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504088244 (June, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 252 p.), $14.99.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (USA 2001)

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Meteorites fall from the sky but seldom onto the heads of science dons in redbrick universities; yet this is what happens to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. Inspector Appleby soon discovers that the meteorite was not fresh and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower - he already knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327585 (January, 2001), 238 p., $9.95.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (USA 1983)

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The weight of the evidence was a meteorite that someone let fall on Professor Pluckrose in the courtyard of Nesfield University in the English provinces. John Appleby of Scotland Yard interrogates quaint scholars and follows a series of distracting clues through dusty storerooms and ducal residences to determine the perpetrator of this odious deed.

"First-class puzzle, deftly solved. University background interesting and amusing." -- Saturday Review of Literature
"Strongly recommended." -- The Times Literary Supplement
"[You] will not want to miss it." -- The New York Times

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, ISBN: 0060806338, Perennial Library P633, 250 p., $2.95.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (UK 1980)

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When Professor Pluckrose is murdered, there is quite a stir at Nesfield University. For the lethal weapon appears to be a meteor which fell on him as he sat in his deck chair in the quadrangle. Investigating the case, Detective-Inspector Appleby is overwhelmed with academic advice from all sides. But as the Vice-Chancellor himself says: "It is a thing to remember about professors. They go mad."

In this ingenious detective novel, Michael Innes provides a breathtaking solution.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. Feltham, Middlesex: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1980, ISBN: 060020149X, A Hamlyn Whodunnit, 254 p., £1.10.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (UK 1964)

From the Publisher:
Meteorites fall from heaven but seldom on to the heads of science dons in redbrick universities. Yet this was what happened to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. It didn't take Appleby long to find out that the meteorite was not fresh - it had moss on it in fact - and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower. An Act of God was therefore ruled out. Appleby knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more.

'Richly comic' - Birmingham Post
'Strongly recommended' - The Times Literary Supplement

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966, Penguin Crime No. C1578, 233 p., 3'6.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (USA 1964)

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DEATH DROPS IN
In the violent death of Professor Pluckrose of Nesfield University, the solidest bit of evidence was the meteorite that had landed smack on the late scholar; and it didn't come from outer space. Detective-Inspector John Appleby found the Professor's colleagues bursting with facetious suggestions as to where it might have come from, and why it was used as a murder weapon. But to Appleby's questions, they gave only evasive or misleading replies. What they did not realize was that Appleby, once set in motion, was as unerring and undeviating in his course as any meteorite!

"A master -- Innes constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric el: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go." - London Times Literary Supplement

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1964, Berkley Medallion Book No. F-891, 192 p., 50¢.

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence (UK 1961)

From the Publisher:
Meteorites fall from heaven but seldom on to the heads of science dons in redbrick universities. Yet this was what happened to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. It didn't take Appleby long to find out that the meteorite was not fresh - it had moss on it in fact - and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower. An Act of God was therefore ruled out. Appleby knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more.

'Richly comic' - Birmingham Post
'Strongly recommended' - The Times Literary Supplement

Michael Innes: The Weight of the Evidence. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961, Penguin Books No. 1578, 233 p., 2'6.