Critic, and writer of detective fiction, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Oxford, and taught English at Leeds, Adelaide, and Belfast universities before returning to Oxford in 1949. Under his own name he wrote several novels and critical studies, notably Eight Modern Writers (1963). He was better known for his prolific work (48 volumes) as Michael Innes, beginning with Death at the President's Lodging (1936, in USA as Seven Suspects), featuring the policeman hero John Appleby. Later books include The Secret Vanguard (1940), A Private View (1952), and A Family Affair.
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Bibliography
Inspector Appleby novels
Death At the President's Lodging (1936) (aka
Seven Suspects)
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
Lament for a Maker (1938)
Stop Press (1939) (aka
The Spider
Strikes)
The Secret Vanguard (1940)
There Came Both Mist And Snow (1940) (aka
A Comedy of Terrors)
Appleby On Ararat (1941)
The Daffodil Affair (1942)
The Weight of the Evidence (1943)
Appleby's End (1945)
A Night of Errors (1947)
Operation Pax (1951) (aka
The Paper Thunderbolt)
A Private View (1952)
(aka
One-Man Show and
Murder Is an Art)
Appleby Talking (1954) (aka
Dead Man's Shoes)
Appleby Talks Again (1956)
Appleby Plays Chicken (1957) (aka
Death On a Quiet Day)
The Long Farewell (1958)
Hare Sitting Up (1959)
Silence Observed (1961)
A Connoisseur's Case (1962) (aka
The Crabtree Affair)
The Bloody Wood (1966)
Appleby At Allington (1968) (aka
Death By Water)
A Family Affair (1969) (aka
Picture of Guilt)
Death At the Chase (1970)
An
Awkward Lie (1971), ISBN 0-396-06345-4
The Open House (1972), ISBN 0-396-06524-4
Appleby's Answer (1973), ISBN 0-396-06744-1
Appleby's Other Story (1974), ISBN
0-396-06715-8
The Appleby File (1975), ISBN 0-396-07279-8
The Gay Phoenix (1976), ISBN 0-396-07442-1
The Ampersand Papers (1978), ISBN 0-396-07663-7
Sheiks and Adders
(1982), ISBN 0-396-08063-4
Appleby And Honeybath (1983), ISBN 0-396-08247-5
Carson's Conspiracy (1984), ISBN 0-396-08395-1
Appleby And the Ospreys (1986), ISBN 0-396-08950-X
Other novels
What Happened At Hazelwood? (1946)
From London Far (1946) (aka
The Unsuspected Chasm)
The Journeying Boy (1949)
Christmas At Candleshoe (1953)
The Man
from the Sea (1955) (aka
Death By Moonlight)
Old Hall, New Hall (1956) (aka
A Question of Queens)
The New Sonia Wayward (1960) (aka
The Case of Sonia
Wayward)
Money from Holme (1964)
A Change of Heir (1966)
The Mysterious Commission (1974), ISBN 0-396-07134-1
Honeybath's Haven (1977), ISBN 0-396-07555-X
Going
It Alone (1980), ISBN 0-396-07819-2
Lord Mullion's Secret (1981), ISBN 0-396-08005-7
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