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Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
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A Night of Errors (2001) by Michael Innes , published by House of Stratus (ISBN: 9781842327487 ), is the sort of crime novel that doesn?t just offer you a mystery ? it offers you a mystery with a raised eyebrow, a literary aside, and the faint sense that everyone involved is either too clever for their own good or about to be undone by someone who is. Michael Innes (the pen name of J. I. M. Stewart) is classic ?detective fiction for people who like their murders with footnotes.? His books have that wonderfully civilised British tone where things are appalling but manners must be maintained, and where the investigation proceeds not only through clues but through conversation, wit, and the steady unpicking of human absurdity. If you enjoy your crime fiction with a splash of academia and a dash of theatre, you?re in very safe hands ? except, of course, for the part where someone is dead. The title A Night of Errors has the cosy ring of a mistaken booking at a seaside hotel. It sounds like the sort of thing you?d laugh about later. But in Innes-land, errors have consequences, and the consequences tend to involve secrets, misdirection, and the sort of plot architecture that feels like an elegant clockwork toy until you realise it?s also sharp. What you get is that deliciously ironic blend: a story that is, at heart, a puzzle ? yet also a commentary on the people trying to solve it. Innes has a knack for making his characters feel like they?re playing roles in their own lives, often without noticing. There?s a hint of farce, a hint of menace, and a constant sense that the real mystery isn?t just ?who did it,? but ?why do humans keep doing things like this.? House of Stratus editions have that pleasing ?rediscovered classic? vibe: the sort of reprint that quietly rescues a book from the fog of out-of-print obscurity and hands it back to readers who like their Golden Age-ish mysteries a little sharper and more literate than the average country-house corpse. This copy is in Good condition as sold by Crappy Old Books , which is perfect for a Michael Innes novel: the kind of book you want to pick up on a rainy evening, read with a cup of tea, and then find yourself staying up later than planned because you?ve become personally invested in proving you?re smarter than the plot. (You may or may not win. Innes enjoys that.) Ideal for: fans of classic British detective fiction with brains and bite readers who like witty dialogue and elegant construction anyone who enjoys mysteries that feel slightly theatrical and slightly scholarly people who think a well-placed irony is almost as satisfying as a solved crime A murder mystery that behaves like a drawing-room comedy until it remembers it?s also a murder mystery. One night. Many errors. And you, happily complicit, turning the pages.…
Seller Inventory # 5661
- Title
- A Night of Errors
- Author
- Michael Innes
- Publisher
- House of Stratus
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1842327488
- ISBN 13
- 9781842327487
- Series
- Book 10 of 15: The Inspector Appleby Mysteries
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Crappy Old Books
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AbeBooks seller since February 6, 2025
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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.
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