Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755114027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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.
Appleby And The Ospreys
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755114027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755114027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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.
Appleby On Ararat
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
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.
Appleby's Answer
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842327143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
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?
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842327143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
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?
Appleby's End
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
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?
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
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?
Appleby Talking
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
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!
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
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!
The Appleby File
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
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.
The New Sonia Wayward
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Colonel Ffolliot Petticate's predicament begins when his novelist wife, Sonia, drowns during a sailing trip in the English Channel. A dramatic cover-up ensues in a tale full of humour, irony and devastating suspense.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Colonel Ffolliot Petticate's predicament begins when his novelist wife, Sonia, drowns during a sailing trip in the English Channel. A dramatic cover-up ensues in a tale full of humour, irony and devastating suspense.
Honeybath's Haven
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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.
Appleby Talks Again
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075511793X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075511793X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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.
Appleby's Other Story
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075512085X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075512085X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.