One Man Show
A European Literature, Emergency Services, Fiction book. (It's curious: my copy is actually titled Murder is an Art, noted as previously published as...
Sir John and Lady Appleby attend a memorial exhibition of the oils, gouaches, collages and trouvailles of artist Gavin Limbert, who was recently found shot, under very suspicious circumstances. As Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sir John is already interested, but he becomes even more intrigued when Limbert's last masterpiece is stolen from the gallery under his very eyes.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 223 pages
- ISBN: 9780060806729 / 60806729
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(It's curious: my copy is actually titled Murder is an Art, noted as previously published as One Man Show. It has also accumulated the title A Private View, somehow.)It starts off with the Assistant Commissioner and his wife, seemingly Society people, on their way to a private art showing and becoming embroiled in art theft and incidental... Well written, humorous adventure and mystery. His literary style reflects his background as a Professor of English.A meticulously elegant style, a dry literary humour, and a slightly absurd (and, indeed, an absurdly slight) plot are the hallmarks of a thriller by Mr. Michael Innes: hallmarks which have been constantly imitated but which... The Appleby mysteries by Michael Innes are always filled with witty descriptions, great period detail, and plenty of coincidences to help get the mystery solved. The emphasis is usually on witty conversation though there is a good deal of action in this one with some good car chases and gun fights. Not at all violent in a lurid or graphic...
