by Michael Innes · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140115161
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«Operation Pax» is the classic mystery novel by Michael Innes, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Sir John Appleby is called to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a student from Bede's College, while swindler Alfred Routh stumbles upon the private clinic Milton Manor and its respectable facade. Cryptic notes, unsettling phone calls, and more disappearances lead Appleby and his sister Jane to the secret of Operation Pax.
Twelfth installment in the Sir John Appleby series; originally published in 1951. Penguin edition in the Classic Crime collection.
For readers of classic detective fiction and mysteries set in academia.
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).
