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Swing Low, Swing Death - by R T Campbell (Paperback)
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- There's always a good murder around if ye know where to look for it, declares Professor John Stubbs.
- About the Author: Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish-born poet, scholar, art critic, and fantasy novelist who wrote a series of detective novels under the name R. T. Campbell.
- 176 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
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First time published in the United States! Professor John Stubbs is called to the opening of London's new Museum of Modern Art -- it seems that there's a corpse hanging from an exhibit wall.Book Synopsis
There's always a good murder around if ye know where to look for it, declares Professor John Stubbs. It may be masqueradin' as accidental death or suicide, he solemnly adds, but once ye start rootin' around ye'll find that it's murder. And murder it is, on public display in London's controversial new modern art museum. When the unveiling of a contemporary masterpiece reveals the body of a prominent art dealer dangling from a picture hook, Professor Stubbs is faced with a rogue's gallery of suspects: librarian Douglas Newsome, an aspiring poet with a desperate thirst for alcohol; Alec Carr, an avant-garde interior decorator tied to the apron strings of his gin-soaked mother; Dr. Cornelius Bellamy, a pompous windbag of an art critic; and Miss Emily Wallenstein, nervous patron of the arts.Originally published in 1946, and never before in the U.S., Swing Low, Swing Death is one of a series of seven novels featuring Professor Stubbs, the beer-swilling, pipe-smoking amateur detective. Poet and art historian Ruthven Todd, writing as R. T. Campbell, vividly recaptures the atmosphere of postwar London and his brisk, humorous narrative is brightened with many droll allusions to the works of T. S. Eliot, Kipling, Shakespeare, and other poets.
About the Author
Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish-born poet, scholar, art critic, and fantasy novelist who wrote a series of detective novels under the name R. T. Campbell.Additional product information and recommendations
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