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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.
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2010-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755117921 |
Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rather cynical professional interest. His wife has taken a lover, Rupert Slade, and Arbuthnot wants nothing more than to see him dead - but then it happens!
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?
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2010-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755120787 |
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.
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1842327143 |
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 is military officer, Captain Bulkington, who recognises Miss Pringle and offers her oe500 to collaborate on a detective novel. To everyone's surprise, Miss Pringle is rather taken with Captain Bulkington - is she out of her depth?
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2010-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755117905 |
Inspector Appleby is stranded on a very strange island, with a rather odd bunch of people - too many men, too few women (and one of them too attractive) cause a deal of trouble. But that is nothing compared to later developments.
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.
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2010-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 075512085X |
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.
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755121198 |
When portrait-painter and occasional detective, Charles Honeybath, pays a visit to his old friend Edwin Lightfoot, there are a few surprises in store. Edwin's irksome wife is packing her bags, while Edwin is indulging in an eccentric game of pretence - acting the part of a long-dead petty criminal named Flannel Foot.
Author | : Michael Innes |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2010-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755120892 |
George Gadberry, 'resting actor', packs his bags and heads for obscurity when the Tax Inspector beckons. Then he receives a mysterious invitation and a proposition that could lead to enormous riches. Wealthy imbiber, Nicholas Comberford, wants George to impersonate him.