Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel

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David, Viscount Glen Tannock, handsome scion of a noble Scottish family, was a brilliant and charming undergraduate, 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, an Honorary Fellow of David's college and a prominent QC with a reputation as a sleuth, seriously doubts the accepted verdict. With the indulgent permission of the local CID, Scott digs deep into the University's clannish community. As a member of the ancient and exclusive Cambridge society known as 'The Apostles' (whose past members include Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt), David had been summoned by the intellectual glitterati of Cambridge - the jeunesse doréeof the fashionable colleges and a coterie of dons. And because he, too, is an Apostle, Sir Patrick can call this secret network to his aid. When a leading scientist, working fast-acting poisons, is also found dead in his laboratory, Scott knows there's a killer at large and that he has a truly Apostolic puzzle to solve. And by the end he can't trust even his brother Apostles. A midnight tryst closely observed; a suspicious £250 cheque; 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. With his first novel, Anthony Appiah has produced a marvelously urbane, elegantly written and sophisticated story of intrigue and murder in the groves of academe.

Publication Date

1990

Edition

1

Avenging Angel

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