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Carson's Conspiracy (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Wow! What an ending! I was enjoying this book. I like Sir John Appleby. Michael Innes's mysteries are sophisticated and quirky. Anyway, it was pretty good, then I got to the ending and wow! What a surprise! I had to give it 5 stars. Appleby's ...More…
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The Daffodil Affair (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — The strangest of all Inspector Appleby mysteries Michael Innes plunged off the surreal deep end when he wrote "The Daffodil Affair." Maybe it was because of the war--this Inspector Appleby mystery was published in 1942--or maybe Innes just felt ...More…
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The Open House (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Allusive, melodramatic English Manor mystery "The Open House" (1972) is one of my favorite Sir John Appleby mysteries--a slightly hallucinatory murder mystery set in what at first appears to be a fully furnished, but abandoned English manor. ...More…
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The Secret Vanguard (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Review Although Michael Innes' Buchanesque thriller The Secret Vanguard (1940) is straightforward and predictable, it marks an important turning point in Innes' career. Having written several donnish detective stories of outrageous complexity, ...More…
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Honeybath's Haven (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Author Michael Innes Dewey Decimal Number 813 EAN 9781842327395 ISBN 1842327399 Number Of Pages 178 Publication Date 2001-01 Release Date 2008-09-23More…
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The Mysterious Commission (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Author Michael Innes Dewey Decimal Number 813 EAN 9781842327463 ISBN 1842327461 Number Of Pages 184 Publication Date 2001-01 Release Date 2008-09-23More…
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Hamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Age cannot wither these characters This classical suspense novel, first published in 1937 might be difficult to follow for readers who are not already familiar with Shakespeareýs ýThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince Denmark.ý However, it is well worth reading, ...More…
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The Bloody Wood (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Noir Appleby Sir John Appleby and his wife, Lady Judith accept an invitation to a house-party at Charne, the country estate of the Martineaus. Their friend, Grace Martineau is dying of cancer and she wants her friends about her one last time. This ...More…
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A Private View (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Alternate Title: One Man Show John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (pseudonym Michael Innes) was born in 1906 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and his mysteries reflect both his scholarship, and the year he spent in Vienna, ...More…
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A Night of Errors (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Burnt to a cinder in his own study "...So that night began and continued to the end, in nothing but confusion and errors; whereupon it was ever afterwards called the Night of Errors." (Gesta Grayorum, 1594) One of the most surreal butlers in all ...More…
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The Gay Phoenix (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Amazon.com — Author Michael Innes Dewey Decimal Number 813 EAN 9781842327357 ISBN 1842327356 Number Of Pages 184 Publication Date 2000-01 Release Date 2008-09-23More…
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A Connoisseur's Case (Inspector Appleby Mystery S.)
Amazon.com — Author Michael Innes Dewey Decimal Number 813 EAN 9781842327296 ISBN 1842327291 Number Of Pages 180 Publication Date 2001-01 SKU 21062011-03135-LLBMore…