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Invitation to die / by Barbara Cleverly.

Cleverly, Barbara, (author.).

Summary:

"1923- Five Cambridge college dons host a monthly dinner club in secret. Their sixth man, always a stranger, is destined to make only one appearance. He is carefully selected the day of each party as the dons scour the streets to find their next target-a vagrant, perhaps, who looks like he could use a nice meal. He is handed a formal invitation, then appears at dinner only to be psychologically tormented for the evening by the dons' cutting wit. The man with the highest number of killing shots is awarded a cup at the end of the night. Then the dons' most recent guest, a former officer in the turn-of-the-century Boer War, is found strangled with hints of a sumptuous last meal in his stomach. Detective Inspector John Redfyre's investigation takes him into the halls of notoriously elite and secretive St. Jude's College-unfamiliar territory, even for a man of his breeding. As he contends with five suspects, each powerful and formidably clever, he must determine whether their parties are merely pretentious sadism, or one or more of the dons has more sinister mechanisms at play"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781432872724
  • ISBN: 1432872729
  • Physical Description: 543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Subject: Police > England > Cambridge > Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Crimes against > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
College students > Societies and clubs > Fiction.
Cambridge (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Large print books.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Scenic Regional.

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