Dead Man’s Shoes (1987)
“It is on the river Middler and is thirty-six miles from London. It is a pleasant place with many historical buildings, the remains of a Norman castle and an ancient school.
This—the Queen’s School, Newminster—ranks proudly if somewhat obscurely as a public school. It has a hundred and sixty-odd day-boys, three dozen boarders and a staff of eighteen. But its distinction in recent years is to have on its staff as Senior History Master a certain Carolus Deene.
Carolus Deene has become doubly celebrated. He made his first reputation by applying the methods of modern detection to the classic murder cases of the past in a brilliant book called Who Killed William Rufus? And Other Mysteries of History. For this his large private income allowed him to use all the paraphernalia of detection—microscope, camera, chemical analysis and so on—while he could employ several keen researchers to ferret out details he required.
But it was when he began to apply his talents to contemporary crime and solve...d a number of baffling murder cases that he entered the world of headlines.MoreLess
This—the Queen’s School, Newminster—ranks proudly if somewhat obscurely as a public school. It has a hundred and sixty-odd day-boys, three dozen boarders and a staff of eighteen. But its distinction in recent years is to have on its staff as Senior History Master a certain Carolus Deene.
Carolus Deene has become doubly celebrated. He made his first reputation by applying the methods of modern detection to the classic murder cases of the past in a brilliant book called Who Killed William Rufus? And Other Mysteries of History. For this his large private income allowed him to use all the paraphernalia of detection—microscope, camera, chemical analysis and so on—while he could employ several keen researchers to ferret out details he required.
But it was when he began to apply his talents to contemporary crime and solve...d a number of baffling murder cases that he entered the world of headlines.MoreLess
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