Unholy Dying A Prof. John Stubbs Mystery

This rare 1945 thriller offers a delightful example of detective fiction at its very best. Using the pen name R. T. Campbell, the eminent art critic, poet, and fantasy novelist Ruthven Campbell Todd wrote a series of mysteries featuring a unique hero, the inimitable amateur sleuth Professor John Stubbs. A blustering old botanist from Scotland, Stubbs employs humorously unconventional methods in his investigations.
In this, one of Stubbs's first adventures, an infamous fraud is poisoned at a gathering of geneticists and the possible killer includes a dozen vindictive former assistants and humiliated colleagues. The gallery of suspects ranges from a brash American, Dr. Swartz, and the victim's sniveling associate, Professor Silver, to a lovely young genetics student, Miss Mary Lewis, and even Stubbs's nephew, a reporter covering the convention. The novel's brisk pace, witty dialogue, and flavorful re-creation of English university life during the mid-twentieth century combine to form an exciting and amusing page-turner.

Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914–78) was a Scottish-born poet, scholar, art critic, and fantasy novelist who wrote a series of detective novels under the name R. T. Campebell.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Peter Main

PART ONE
Chapter 1. Congress Meets
Chapter 2. Congress Dances
Chapter 3. ’Twas Brillig
Chapter 4. Slithy Tove
Chapter 5. Gimbling in the Wabe
Chapter 6. He Burbled
Chapter 7. Natural Magic
Chapter 8. Pawn in Check

PART TWO
Chapter 9. You Pays Your Penny
Chapter 10. You Takes Your Choice
Chapter 11. Calico Pie
Chapter 12. The Little Birds Fly
 
PART THREE
Chapter 13. Here Comes the Bogy
Chapter 14. Pop Goes the Weasel
Chapter 15. Easy Come Easy Go

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