Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 30,63 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 : 135 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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!
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755121104
A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this gripping tale the thrilling climax of which takes place in the vaults of the Bodleian Library.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755121066
Colonel Ffolliot Petticate's predicament begins when his novelist wife, Sonia, drowns during a sailing trip in the English Channel. A dramatic cover-up ensues in a tale full of humour, irony and devastating suspense.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755120884
Businessman Carl Carson decides to make a dash for South America to escape the economic slump. He invents an imaginary son and plans to stage a fictitious kidnapping - after all, what could be more natural than a father liquidating his assets to pay the ransom demand?
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 21,64 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 : 110 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 31,20 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 : 108 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755121090
When Inspector Appleby's car breaks down on a deserted road one dark night, he happens upon an imposing mansion, whose windows are all illuminated. His sense of curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the front door is wide open.
