Title: The Weight of Evidence
First published: June 1943
Description: Inspector Appleby arrives at Nesfield University to investigate the very strange death of Professor Pluckrose, struck on the head by a falling meteorite.  The Inspector is there because a) it didn’t fall from the sky but from the top of a tower and b) the tower overlooks a courtyard where, as everyone at the University knew, the Professor was in the habit of taking his breaks.  

From amazon dot com: “Drawn in to the suffocating world of university jealousies and obsessions, will Appleby reveal the truth… or has he finally met his intellectual match?”
Subjects: God, proof, Fiction, Police, Sir Appleby, John (Fictitious character)
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: WWII