J. I. M. Stewart
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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (September 30, 1906 – November 12, 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and "straight" novels published under his real name and for the whodunnits published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other "identity", and vice versa.
Stewart was born in Edinburgh and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He went on to study psychoanalysis in Vienna. He was lecturer in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, and then became Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He returned to the United Kingdom to become Lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he held a professorship within the university. His quintet of novels, collectively titled A Staircase in Surrey, was published between 1974 and 1978. The individual novels making up this series are:
- The Gaudy
- Young Patullo
- Memorial Service
- The Madonna of the Astrolabe
- Full Term
He also wrote studies of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and Thomas Hardy. His last publication was Myself and Michael Innes (1987).
Bibliography
As J. I. M. Stewart:
- A Staircase in Surrey quintet:
- James Joyce (1957)
- A Use Of Riches (1957)
- The Man Who Won The Pools (1961)
- Eight Modern Writers (1963)
- The Last Tresilians (1963)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1963)
- The Aylwins (1966)
- Joseph Conrad (1968)
- Shakespeare's Lofty Scene (1971)
- Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography (1971)
- Mungo's Dream (1973)
- Andrew And Tobias (1980)
- The Bridge At Arta And Other Stories (1981)
- My Aunt Christina : And Other Stories (1983)
- An Open Prison (1984)
- Myself And Michael Innes : A Memoir (1987)
As Michael Innes:
- 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 link
- JIM Stewart (http://www.detective-fiction.com/) detective fiction books