Going It Alone
by Michael Innes
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Gilbert Averell avoids some of the rigours of taxation by living for part of each year in France - but he is unhappy about the number of weeks he spends away from his native country. So when his look-alike friend, Georges, suggests that they swap passports for a short spell, Gilbert seizes the opportunity. However, a number of incidents, involving Gilbert's sister and nephew, begin to suggest that Georges's offer was not made out of simple friendship.Tags
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A negligible effort by Michael Innes. Published in 1980, only 6 years before his final book, it contains an elderly Innes' reaction to late 70s college students who seem so like his 60s college students. There are references to terrorism of various sorts. There is a fight at the end and the police arrive to assist. There is a helicopter, but the denouement is not nearly as spectacular as in, for example, "The Journeying Boy". Innes imagination may have been hampered as his setting, in this case, is not the coast of Ireland but somewhere in southern England. He observes that women still seem to know their place, even in a counterculture, with either weary cynicism or complacency.
It might have been better if he had stuck with a particular show more period, as Conan Doyle did with his Sherlock Holmes stories. show less
It might have been better if he had stuck with a particular show more period, as Conan Doyle did with his Sherlock Holmes stories. show less
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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh. He attended Oxford where he studied English. He taught English in universities at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia. Stewart published novels, short stories, studies in literature, biographies, and plays. Under his name, he wrote scholarly works such as Character and Motive in show more Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and Thomas Hardy. As Michael Innes, he wrote over fifty detective novels with Inspector John Appleby of Scotland Yard in London as the main character. These titles include Death at the President's Lodging, The Journeying Boy, Lament for a Maker, Operation Pax, the Crabtree Affair and Silence Observed. Stewart died on November 12, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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