Avenging Angel
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A fifty-year-old secret leads to murder among the members of an elite Cambridge University society. David Viscount Glen Tannock, handsome scion of a noble Scottish family, was a brilliant and charming student, adored by his friends, admired by his acquaintances. His apparent suicide looks, therefore, like a tragic and inexplicable conclusion to a very promising life. But his cousin, Sir Patrick Scott, a prominent barrister with a reputation as a sleuth, seriously doubts the accepted verdict. With the indulgence of the local constable, Scott digs deep into the University's clannish community. As a member of the ancient and exclusive Cambridge society known as "The Apostles," David had been surrounded by the brightest minds that Cambridge had to offer, a veritable intelligentsia of the ancient college. And because he, too, was an Apostle in his university days, Sir Patrick can call upon this secret network to help in his investigation. When a brilliant scientist, working with fast-acting poisons, is also found dead in his laboratory, Scott knows there's a killer on the loose and that he has a truly Apostolic puzzle to solve. But even his fellow Apostles can't be trusted. A midnight tryst closely observed; a suspicious check for a large amount of money; a poisoned pipe; a Russian connection; a significant lie from the dead youth's tutor; a succession of threatening notes in Latin - all contribute to fears of a murderous plot to wipe out "The Apostles" one by one. Anthony Appiah has produced a marvelously urbane, elegantly written mystery in the best English tradition. Anthony Appiah is a graduate of Cambridge University . He is currently a professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Avenging Angel is his first novel.
Publication Date
1991
Edition
1 U.S.
Recommended Citation
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, "Avenging Angel" (1991). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 44.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/44
