by Michael Innes · El País, Serie negra nº 24, 2004, Madrid. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246850
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«Muerte en la rectoría» is the crime novel by Michael Innes, published by El País in paperback (283 pages, in Spanish).
On the university campus of San Antonio, the president Josías Umpleby is found murdered in his office. The building remains locked at night and only a few people have keys, so Detective Appleby probes the psychology of the suspects to unmask the culprit.
First novel in the Sir John Appleby series, originally published in 1936 as Death at the President's Lodging. Volume 24 of El País's Serie Negra collection.
For fans of classic Golden Age detective fiction and locked-room mysteries in an academic setting.
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. He is known for his Sir John Appleby series, which started with Death at the President's Lodging (1936).
