A golden age murder mystery where there is a finite number of suspects in a confined setting -- this time a university area locked down at night with only a few people having keys.

I got through the book in time, but found it a tough go occasionally. A few too many side diversions, some of which including characters I wasn't sure even belonged in the story. The solution is a bit crazy, but I was so glad to be done with it, that I took it in stride.

Not a page-turner, but ok if nothing else is available and you are into books set in English schools.

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I liked the first Michael Innes book I read ("Hamlet, Revenge!") very much and have read a number of others since. There have been some I have liked nearly as much, but this was not one of them. The events surrounding the murder are too convoluted and preposterous for my taste. I didn't even find any passages that I liked enough that I wanted to read them to my husband. On the other hand, it has an easier vocabulary and fewer quotations than many Innes mysteries. This is the first appearance of John Appleby, star of many of the later works. Some American editions use the title "Seven Suspects".

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