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Robinson, Robert
Robert Robinson is a well known presenter of the popular BBC televison series Call my Bluff, and on radio in The Today Programme and Brain of Britain qiuz. In 1956, shortly after he came down from Oxford, he wrote this detective story which was extremely well received in the press. It was hoped that it would be the first of a series of novel set in Oxford, much of in the style of novels by Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin. But Robert Robinson moved on to dramatic and film critisism, radio critic for the Sunday Times, and then on to his success in the worlds of radio and television broadcasting. | |
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1-903552-52-0 | |||
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Landscape with Dead Dons Oxford. The affair starts when Tantalum, the college porter, spots one figure too many in the row of rooftop statues and finds the corpse of the Vice-Chancellor in veritcal rigor mortis; and ends when the murderer is unmasked in Parson's Pleasure, Oxford's bathing pool, and a hundred naked dons give chase through the city streets. The main action centres upon the Senior Common Room at Warlock College, and lifre among the dons was much the same as it is now. There is a deal of fun concerned with the placing of literary clues, a couple of murders and and a third just prevented and the occasional descriptive detail that provides an agreeable "period" of charm. This apart, the plot is nicely ingenious with a full quota of red herrings, donnish humour, and literary illusions. On its first publication it gained the approval of masters of the genre. | |||
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