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      Death of an Old Goat

      by Robert Barnard
      Published
      Nov 1990
      Main Genre
      Mystery Mystery
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      192
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      Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing the Australian continent, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for shortly after an undistinguished appearance at Drummondale University, the doddering old professor is found brutally murdered. As Police Inspector Royle (who had never actually had to solve a crime before) probes the possible motives of the motley crew of academics who drink their way through the dreary days at Drummondale and as he investigates the bizarre behavior of some worthy locals, a hilarious, highly satirical portrait of life down under emerges.

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      First Edition Nov 1990 Penguin ISBN13 9780140065374 ISBN10 0140065377
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