The Weight of the Evidence (Inspector Appleby Mystery) cover

The Weight of the Evidence (Inspector Appleby Mystery)

by Michael Innes

Inspector Appleby arrives at Nesfield University to investigate the very strange death of Professor Pluckrose, struck on the head by a falling meteorite. The Inspector is there because a) it didn’t fall from the sky but from the top of a tower and b) the tower overlooks a courtyard where, as everyone at the University knew, the Professor was in the habit of taking his breaks. From amazon dot com: “Drawn in to the suffocating world of university jealousies and obsessions, will Appleby reveal the truth… or has he finally met his intellectual match?”

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?