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's Answer

Appleby's Answer
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120833

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.

Appleby And Honeybath

Appleby And Honeybath
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120752

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 On Ararat

Appleby On Ararat
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.

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 Talking

Appleby Talking
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120817

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!

Appleby Talks Again

Appleby Talks Again
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120825

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.

The Appleby File

The Appleby File
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.

Appleby At Allington

Appleby At Allington
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120779

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.

Lament For A Maker

Lament For A Maker
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755121007

When mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, falls from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded his life, and the grim legends of the bleak and nameless hamlets, in a tale that emanates sheer terror and suspense.