Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 37,84 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 : 211 pages
File Size : 46,68 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 : 198 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755117913
David was hiking across Dartmoor. As far as he could tell, he was the only human being for miles - but it turns out that he was the only living human being for miles. At least, that is what he presumed when he found a dead man on top of the tor.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755117883
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 : 201 pages
File Size : 22,36 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 : 173 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755117875
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 : 113 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075512085X
During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to find a police van and two cars parked outside. Wealthy Maurice Tytherton has been found shot dead, and Appleby is faced with a number of suspects.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,77 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 : 108 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755117948
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.
