Download or read book Appleby And The Ospreys written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Appleby Talking written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Download or read book Appleby s End written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Download or read book The Appleby File written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Appleby s Answer written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2000 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Download or read book Appleby On Ararat written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Appleby Talks Again written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Appleby s Other Story written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Honeybath s Haven written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Change Of Heir written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gadberry, 'resting actor', packs his bags and heads for obscurity when the Tax Inspector beckons. Then he receives a mysterious invitation and a proposition that could lead to enormous riches. Wealthy imbiber, Nicholas Comberford, wants George to impersonate him.

Download or read book The Weight Of The Evidence written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meteorites fall from the sky but seldom onto the heads of science dons in redbrick universities; Inspector Appleby soon discovers that the meteorite was not fresh and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower ?

Download or read book From London Far written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian.

Download or read book Old Hall New Hall written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forbears of Sir John Jory, of New Hall, would seem to have committed several foul acts, including tomb-robbery and murder. Old Hall, the family's former residence, is now a University. Biographer Colin Clout gets caught up in a frenzied treasure hunt.

Download or read book What Happened At Hazelwood written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simney family, of Hazelwood Hall, have a dubious history. Sir George Simney, who was travelling in Australia before the baronetcy fell to him, sleeps with a shotgun by his side. When he is found dead in the library, the Reverend Adrian Deamer will not rest until he has discovered who is responsible.

Download or read book Silence Observed written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respected Fine Art experts are deceived in one of the most intriguing murder cases Inspector Appleby has ever faced, beginning with Gribble, a collector of forgeries whose latest acquisition is found to be a forged forgery!

Download or read book Money From Holme written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution. Unfortunately, Holme turns up at a private view in this fascinating mystery of the art world.

Download or read book An Awkward Lie written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Appleby's son, Bobby, assumes his father's detective role in this baffling crime. When Bobby finds a dead man, in a bunker on a golf course, he notices something rather strange - the first finger of the man's right hand is missing.