MR Campion's Visit - Mike Ripley

Suffolk, 1970. Albert Campion has been appointed to the role of Visitor of the University of Suffolk, but his trip to the campus takes an unexpected turn when the body of a professor is fished out of the lake. Drawn into another puzzling murder, Campion must negotiate seething jealousy, resentment, and betrayal as he searches for a ruthless killer.

nAn intriguing case of higher education and lower morals: the entertaining new Albert Campion mystery. n Suffolk, 1970. Albert Campion is back in Black Dudley, once the scene of murder and mayhem but now home to the brand-new University of Suffolk Coastal.

Appointed to the role of the university's Visitor, Campion finds he has a curiously vague remit, but his initial visit to the concrete campus takes an unexpected turn when the body of charismatic Chilean professor Pascual Perez-Catalan, a rising star and genius scientist in the field of geochemistry, is fished out of the ornamental lake. n n It seems Pascual was unpopular among his fellow academics and lecturers, his trail-blazing research taking up most of the university's new computing capacity . .

. and he was also a keen ladies man. Drawn into another puzzling murder, Campion must negotiate internal politics, seething jealousy and resentment, blackmail, betrayal and a phantom trumpeter as he searches for a ruthless killer.

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