Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,34 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 : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,16 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 : 108 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : 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
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,90 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 : 118 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755121031
When a man swims to shore from a freighter off the Scottish coast, he interrupts a midnight rendezvous between Richard Cranston and Lady Blair. Richard hears the swimmer's incredible tale of espionage, treason and looming death and is propelled into life threatening danger.
