{"product_id":"9781504092029","title":"Lament for a Maker","description":"Author: Michael Innes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781504092029\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Open Road Integrated Media\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Jun 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 270 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of \u003ci\u003eHamlet, Revenge!\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Strange things are happening around the remote Castle Erchany, located in the Scottish Highlands. The miserly and reclusive laird, Ranald Guthrie, roams the castle's freezing halls, reciting an old poem over and over:\u003ci\u003e Timor mortis conturbat me\u003c\/i\u003e. Fear of death disturbs me...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Then on a wild winter night, Guthrie plummets to his death from his castle's tower. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Or was it murder?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suspicion falls on a local man, but when Insp. John Appleby arrives from the Met in London, he doubts this solution. To discover the truth, Appleby immerses himself in the dead man's final days in a gloomy, gothic castle. Of course, he must be on his guard, because there's no telling whether someone else might fall victim to another \"accident.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The simple-seeming and single-seeming plot of \u003ci\u003eLament for a Maker\u003c\/i\u003e holds about as many layers of complication as a first-class mystery story could well hold without bursting, and... Michael Innes manages this complication with the lucidity of a master.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Magnificently written.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A grand and ghastly tale with a surprising double climax.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919633825950,"sku":"ING-9781504092029","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781504092029.jpg?v=1782814166","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781504092029","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}