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Innes, Michael - Inspector Appleby series

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Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories.

Appleby had perhaps the longest career of any of the great detectives. In Silence Observed he states that his age is fifty-three, which, if the action of the book takes place in the year of publication, would mean that he was born in 1907 or 1908. This is contradicted in The Gay Phoenix where he says that he was twenty-nine when he married. He becomes engaged in Appleby's End, published 1945, which would mean that he was born in 1916.

He was born in Kirkby Overblow (as mentioned in Hare Sitting Up) and brought up in a back street in a Midland town (Appleby's Other Story). His grandfather had been a baker and he himself had won a scholarship to university (There Came Both Mist and Snow).

He first appeared as a youthful Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard in Death at the President's Lodging (Seven Suspects in the United States) in 1936. He retired from Scotland Yard at a very early age just after World War II, on marrying Judith Raven, a sculptor first encountered in Appleby's End. He had two younger sisters, Patricia (Stop Press) and Jane (Operation Pax), both of whom figure prominently in one novel each and then are never mentioned again. 


Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 01] - Death at the President's Lodging (v5.0) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 03] - Lament for a Maker (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 04] - Stop Press (The Spider Strikes) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 05] - The Secret Vanguard (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 06] - There Came Both Mist and Snow (A Comedy of Terrors) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 07] - Appleby on Ararat (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 08] - The Daffodil Affair (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 09] - The Weight of the Evidence (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 10] - Appleby's End (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 11] - A Night of Errors (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 12] - Operation Pax (The Paper Thunderbolt) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 13] - A Private View (One Man Show, Murder is an Art) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 14] - Appleby Talking (Dead Man's Shoes) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 15] - Appleby Talks Again- Eighteen Detective Stories (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 16] - Appleby Plays Chicken (Death on a Quiet Day) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 17] - The Long Farewell (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 18] - Hare Sitting Up (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 19] - Silence Observed (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 20] - A Connoisseur's Case (The Crabtree Affair) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 21] - The Bloody Wood (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 22] - Appleby at Allington (Death By Water) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 23] - A Family Affair (Picture of Guilt) (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 24] - Death at the Chase (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 25] - An Awkward Lie (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 26] - The Open House (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 27] - Appleby's Answer (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 28] - Appleby's Other Story (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 29] - The Appleby File (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 30] - Gay Phoenix (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 31] - The Ampersand Papers (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 32] - Sheiks and Adders (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 33] - Appleby and Honeybath (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 34] - Carson's Conspiracy (retail) (epub).epub
Michael Innes - [Inspector Appleby 35] - Appleby and the Ospreys (retail) (epub).epub



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