Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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 : Steven Appleby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
