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 was through the dreary days at Drummondale and as he investigates the bizarre behaviour of some worthy locals, a hilarious, highly satirical portrait of life down under emerges.
'The perfect gem, one you wouldn't change a word of' Los Angeles Times
- ISBN10 1853894311
- ISBN13 9781853894312
- Publish Date April 1994 (first published 11 November 1974)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Magna Large Print Books
- Imprint Dales Large Print
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 323
- Language English