Appleby Talking

Appleby Talking
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!

Mr Concerned's Book of Home Therapy

Mr Concerned's Book of Home Therapy
Author: Steven Appleby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: English wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN: 9780747560739

This year Steven Appleby guarantees to cure Western civilisation of its discontents in the comfort of your own home. No more tiring weekly trips across town to see a therapist - simply sit back, open the book and let Mr Concerned help you get in touch with your feelings. Suitable for all levels of neurosis from the compulsion to be late to the recurring fantasy of killing your partner.

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.

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.

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.

An Awkward Lie

An Awkward Lie
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120868

Sir John Appleby's son, Bobby, assumes his father's detective role in this baffling crime. When Bobby finds a dead man, in a bunker on a golf course, he notices something rather strange - the first finger of the man's right hand is missing.

Lord Mullion's Secret

Lord Mullion's Secret
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755121023

At Mullion Castle, sumptuous stately home, we meet the Earl and his family. Charles Honeybath, has been commissioned to paint a portrait of the Earl's wife, but finds himself at the helm of a complex investigation involving ancestral works of art and a young under gardener.

There Came Both Mist And Snow

There Came Both Mist And Snow
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755121163

Inspector Appleby arrives on the scene when one of Ferryman's cousins is found shot dead in the study, in a mystery built on family antagonisms.

From London Far

From London Far
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755120957

As Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian.

A Change Of Heir

A Change Of Heir
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.