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 108 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 s Answer 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: 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 offers her œ500 to collaborate on a detective novel.
Download or read book Appleby And Honeybath written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every English mansion has a locked room, and Grinton Hall is no exception - the library has hidden doors and passages?and a corpse. But when the corpse goes missing, Sir John Appleby and Charles Honeybath have an even more perplexing case on their hands.
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 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 Appleby Talking written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 135 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 Talks Again 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: 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 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 At Allington written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington. The evening comes to an end but just as Appleby is leaving, they find a dead man - electrocuted in the son et lumiŠre box which had been installed in the grounds.
Download or read book Lament For A Maker written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, falls from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded his life, and the grim legends of the bleak and nameless hamlets, in a tale that emanates sheer terror and suspense.
Download or read book Sheiks And Adders written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When half of the guests at a charity masquerade fˆte at Drool Court turn up dressed as sheiks, it must be more than pure coincidence. One of them is the real thing, however, and Sir John Appleby, master detective, discovers that he is in grave danger.
Download or read book A Family Affair 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: Over a period of twenty years, a series of highly elaborate art hoaxes have been perpetrated, and in each case the victim has a very good reason for keeping quiet. Inspector Appleby's interest is kindled by an amusing dinner-party anecdote.
Download or read book Christmas at Candleshoe 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: When an American multi-millionaire is keen to buy an Elizabethan manor, she comes up against fierce opposition from a young boy, Jay, and his band of bowmen. It seems that behind a monumental, seventeenth-century carving lies a hoard of treasure.
Download or read book The Open House written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Inspector Appleby's car breaks down on a deserted road one dark night, he happens upon an imposing mansion, whose windows are all illuminated. His sense of curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the front door is wide open.
Download or read book The Gay Phoenix written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tycoon, Charles Povey, is killed in a bizarre boating accident, his corrupt, look-alike brother, Arthur, adopts his identity and his financial empire. But the charade becomes complicated when one of Charles's many mistresses sees through the guise and blackmails Arthur. Enter retired detective, Sir John Appleby?
Download or read book The Secret Vanguard 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: Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards, he is found dead in the library with a copy of Dante's Purgatory open before him.
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 139 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.
