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After Colin Reiver is acquitted of responsibility for killing a child in a car accident he sets out on a sea cruise in the hope that it might ease local feeling and the voice of his own conscience. But when a few days after his departure Colin is found dead by the roadside, Miles Bredon, investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company, must travel to Scotland to establish precisely when the death occurred. The body has disappeared and reappeared in the space of forty-eight hours and a show more large insurance premium is at stake. show lessTags
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Knox had a reputation as a brilliant and witty man and great Catholic scholar, but somehow his mysteries seem colorless compared to that reputation. This mystery bears some resemblance to Cyril Hare's Untimely Death - a man is found dead, vanishes, then is found dead again. If he died the first time, his insurances still valid, if the second time, it was not. Insurance detective MIles Bredon investigates.
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Monsignor Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 but converted to Catholicism in 1917, an event influenced by Knox's friendship with G. K. Chesterton. Knox wrote numerous books, including Enthusiasm, Essays in Satire, and several detective novels, and completed a full translation of the Latin Vulgate into English.
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- Canonical title
- Still Dead
- Original publication date
- 1934
- People/Characters
- Miles Bredon
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