Michael Innes
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Michael Innes was the pseudonym of an Oxford academic, J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994), under which name he wrote about forty crime novels between 1936 and 1986.
The best-known of Innes' detective creations is Sir John Appleby (originally Inspector John Appleby) of Scotland Yard.
Bibliography
- Inspector Appleby novels:
- Death At the President's Lodging (1936) (aka Seven Suspects)
- Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
- Lament for a Maker (1938)
- Stop Press (1939) (aka The Spider Strikes)
- The Secret Vanguard (1940)
- There Came Both Mist And Snow (1940) (aka A Comedy of Terrors)
- Appleby On Ararat (1941)
- The Daffodil Affair (1942)
- The Weight of the Evidence (1943)
- Appleby's End (1945)
- A Night of Errors (1947)
- Operation Pax (1951) (aka The Paper Thunderbolt)
- A Private View (1952) (aka One-Man Show and Murder Is an Art)
- Appleby Talking (1954) (aka Dead Man's Shoes)
- Appleby Talks Again (1956)
- Appleby Plays Chicken (1957) (aka Death On a Quiet Day)
- The Long Farewell (1958)
- Hare Sitting Up (1959)
- Silence Observed (1961)
- A Connoisseur's Case (1962) (aka The Crabtree Affair)
- The Bloody Wood (1966)
- Appleby At Allington (1968) (aka Death By Water)
- A Family Affair (1969) (aka Picture of Guilt)
- Death At the Chase (1970)
- An Awkward Lie (1971)
- The Open House (1972)
- Appleby's Answer (1973)
- Appleby's Other Story (1974)
- The Appleby File (1975)
- The Gay Phoenix (1976)
- The Ampersand Papers (1978)
- Sheiks and Adders (1982)
- Appleby And Honeybath (1983)
- Carson's Conspiracy (1984)
- Appleby And the Ospreys (1986)
- What Happened At Hazelwood? (1946)
- From London Far (1946) (aka The Unsuspected Chasm)
- The Journeying Boy (1949)
- Christmas At Candleshoe (1953)
- The Man from the Sea (1955) (aka Death By Moonlight)
- Old Hall, New Hall (1956) (aka A Question of Queens)
- The New Sonia Wayward (1960) (aka The Case of Sonia Wayward)
- Money from Holme (1964)
- A Change of Heir (1966)
- The Mysterious Commission (1974)
- Honeybath's Haven (1977)
- Going It Alone (1980)
- Lord Mullion's Secret (1981)
External links
- Michael Innes (http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/) detective fiction bibliography UK first editions
- http://www.mysterylist.com/innes.htm appraisal of each of Innes's books