Appleby And The Ospreys

Appleby And The Ospreys
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120760

Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests. Appleby is indifferent, but he is soon faced with a real challenge - the murder of Lord Osprey, stabbed with an ornate dagger in the library.

Appleby And The Ospreys

Appleby And The Ospreys
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755114027

Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests. Appleby is indifferent, but he is soon faced with a real challenge - the murder of Lord Osprey, stabbed with an ornate dagger in the library.

Appleby Plays Chicken

Appleby Plays Chicken
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117913

David was hiking across Dartmoor. As far as he could tell, he was the only human being for miles - but it turns out that he was the only living human being for miles. At least, that is what he presumed when he found a dead man on top of the tor.

Appleby's Other Story

Appleby's Other Story
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117964

During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to find a police van and two cars parked outside. Wealthy Maurice Tytherton has been found shot dead, and Appleby is faced with a number of suspects.

Appleby At Allington

Appleby At Allington
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117883

Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington. The evening comes to an end but just as Appleby is leaving, they find a dead man - electrocuted in the son et lumiŠre box which had been installed in the grounds.

The Appleby File

The Appleby File
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117891

There are fifteen stories in this compelling collection, including: Poltergeist - when Appleby's wife tells him that her aunt is experiencing trouble with a Poltergeist, he is amused but dismissive, until he discovers that several priceless artefacts have been smashed as a result.

Appleby Talks Again

Appleby Talks Again
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 075511793X

Fifty years after Ralph Dangerfield's death, a collector of literary curiosities claims to have his diary and threatens to blackmail fashionable London with belated secrets about people now in respectable old age. Sir John Appleby reveals how he uncovered this unscrupulous crime, along with seventeen more intriguing cases.

Appleby And Honeybath

Appleby And Honeybath
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117875

Every English mansion has a locked room, and Grinton Hall is no exception - the library has hidden doors and passages?and a corpse. But when the corpse goes missing, Sir John Appleby and Charles Honeybath have an even more perplexing case on their hands.

Appleby's End

Appleby's End
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120841

Appleby's End was where Detective Inspector John Appleby got off the train from Scotland Yard. But that was not the only coincidence. Why did Ranulph Raven's mysterious descendants make such a point of inviting Appleby to spend the night at their house?

Appleby's Answer

Appleby's Answer
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117948

Author of detective novels, Priscilla Pringle, is pleased to find that she is sharing a railway compartment with a gentleman who happens to be reading one of her books - Murder in the Cathedral. He offers her œ500 to collaborate on a detective novel.