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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780881503203
ISBN number: 0881503207
Label: Foul Play Press
Manufacturer: Foul Play Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 201
Printing Date: 1994-10
Publishing house: Foul Play Press
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Hilariously satirizing Britain's education system, a mystery at the Burleigh School involves the inept leadership of its headmaster, Edward Crumwallis, and the evil pupil he chooses as his subsequent headboy--sneaky sycophant Hillary Frome. Reprint. IP.
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It is difficult to choose among Barnard's books (they are all extremely well-written, literate entertainment), but this is one of the funniest. His gift for deft characterization is on full display here.
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Robert Barnard is that rarity: one who writes mystery novels that may be better as novels than as mysteries.
This is an example of his early style: elegant, witty, epigrammatic, but extremely insightful.
I taught in a private school very much like the one described in this book, and Barnard's picture is dazzling in its accuracy and devastating in its satire. His command of personalities and politics and teacher/student relations is perfect.
Recommended for any lover of good writing, bad schools, and great mysteries.
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