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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh, educated at Oxford, and taught English in universities all over the world. His scholarly career includes successful works on Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, but he is better known as mystery writer Michael Innes, whose legendary character, Inspector John Appleby, inspired a lasting vogue for donnish detective fiction.
Genres: Mystery
Series
Inspector Appleby
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 / 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)
The Open House (1972)
Appleby's Answer (1973)
Appleby's Other Story (1974)
The Appleby File (1975)
The Gay Phoenix (1976)
The Ampersand Papers (1978)
Sheiks and Adders (1982)
Appleby and Honeybath (1983)
Carson's Conspiracy (1984)
Appleby and the Ospreys (1986)
Appleby Talks About Crime (2010)
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 / 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)
The Open House (1972)
Appleby's Answer (1973)
Appleby's Other Story (1974)
The Appleby File (1975)
The Gay Phoenix (1976)
The Ampersand Papers (1978)
Sheiks and Adders (1982)
Appleby and Honeybath (1983)
Carson's Conspiracy (1984)
Appleby and the Ospreys (1986)
Appleby Talks About Crime (2010)
Charles Honeybath
The Mysterious Commission (1974)
Honeybath's Haven (1977)
Lord Mullion's Secret (1981)
The Mysterious Commission (1974)
Honeybath's Haven (1977)
Lord Mullion's Secret (1981)
Novels
From London Far (1946)
aka The Unsuspected Chasm
What Happened At Hazelwood? (1946)
The Journeying Boy (1949)
aka The Case of the Journeying Boy
Christmas At Candleshoe (1953)
aka Candleshoe
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)
Going It Alone (1980)
aka The Unsuspected Chasm
What Happened At Hazelwood? (1946)
The Journeying Boy (1949)
aka The Case of the Journeying Boy
Christmas At Candleshoe (1953)
aka Candleshoe
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)
Going It Alone (1980)
Omnibus
Collections
Three tales of Hamlet (1950) (with Rayner Heppenstall)
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) (with Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, Marjorie Bowen, John Dickson Carr, G K Chesterton, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters, Ian Rankin and Julian Symons)
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) (with Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, Marjorie Bowen, John Dickson Carr, G K Chesterton, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters, Ian Rankin and Julian Symons)
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