Title: Death by Water/(English Title = Appleby at Allington)
First published: June 1968
Description: > It all began when Sir John Appleby, retired Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, was visiting Allington Park, a partially restored estate dating back to Charles First. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John noticed a bundle of stuff in a corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he said grimly: "It's a man and I think he's dead." So begins this amusing if tragic divertissement of repeated death by misadventure or perhaps otherwise. An old castle, a gay village charity fete, a unique assembly of human oddments among the characters - these and a legendary lost treasure add up to what, in Sir John's words, "that chap in Baker Street called a two-pipe mystery."
Subjects: Sir Appleby, John (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, London (england), fiction, England, fiction, Appleby, john, sir (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: England
LC classification: PZ3.S85166 Dee, PR6037.T466 Dee