"A Night of Errors"

The book reviewed this week on our "Classic Mysteries" podcast is the funny and very eccentric "A Night of Errors," by Michael Innes. First published in 1948, it features John Appleby, shortly after his early retirement as a Scotland Yard detective. He is called in to solve the bizarre murder of the titular head of the Dromio family, an eccentric (to the point of insanity) English family. The plot is wonderfully complex, with murders, fires and other oddities, all of which must be resolved before the night is over.

The book also features the marvelously odd character of Swindle, the family butler, who grunts and snorts his way through the novel, terrorizing the family he serves. He is one of the most marvelously comic English country house butlers in fiction, and he plays a key role in the ultimate solution of the problems of this very peculiar night.

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