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Book Appleby Plays Chicken

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755117913
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Appleby Plays Chicken written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David was hiking across Dartmoor. As far as he could tell, he was the only human being for miles - but it turns out that he was the only living human being for miles. At least, that is what he presumed when he found a dead man on top of the tor.

Book Appleby Plays Chicken

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Appleby Plays Chicken written by Michael Innes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appleby And The Ospreys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120760
  • Pages : 108 pages

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.

Book The Appleby File

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755117891
  • Pages : 201 pages

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 201 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.

Book Appleby At Allington

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120779
  • Pages : 110 pages

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.

Book Appleby And Honeybath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755117875
  • Pages : 173 pages

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 173 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.

Book Appleby s Answer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120833
  • Pages : 115 pages

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.

Book Poultry Behaviour and Welfare

Download or read book Poultry Behaviour and Welfare written by Michael C. Appleby and published by CABI. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative textbook provides an introduction and guide to poultry behavior and welfare. It describes the origin and biology of the various species of bird that are of agricultural importance, as well as giving a succinct overview of their key behavior patterns. There is careful discussion of the many factors that influence their welfare, and detailed consideration of the ways in which legislation and commercial interests interact in an attempt to satisfy the many needs involved. The final chapters discuss possible future developments within the subject. The book is in part an update of a previous work, Poultry Production Systems: Behaviour, Management and Welfare (CABI, 1992), completely rewritten and with much new material added.

Book Appleby Talking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755117921
  • Pages : 211 pages

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!

Book The Man From The Sea

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  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755121031
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book The Man From The Sea written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man swims to shore from a freighter off the Scottish coast, he interrupts a midnight rendezvous between Richard Cranston and Lady Blair. Richard hears the swimmer's incredible tale of espionage, treason and looming death and is propelled into life threatening danger.

Book Hare Sitting Up

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120981
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book Hare Sitting Up written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a germ-warfare expert goes missing, his twin brother impersonates him as a cover-up, but for how long can this last? Inspector Appleby is sent on a series of wild goose chases, which take him to a preparatory school, to the estate of an eccentric earl, and to a remote Atlantic rock, before a truly shocking climax.

Book The Long Farewell

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  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755121015
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard - but there is no trace of this valuable object when Packford apparently commits suicide. Sir John Appleby finds a mixed bag of suspects at the dead man's house.

Book A Night Of Errors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755121074
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book A Night Of Errors written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gruelling night of shrouded motives and confused identities develops when the last of the Dromios is found murdered, with both of his hands burnt off. Inspector Appleby wrenches the facts from a melodrama in which the final solution is written in fire.

Book The Daffodil Affair

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  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120922
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book The Daffodil Affair written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of an enigmatic young girl who has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman.

Book A Family Affair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120949
  • Pages : 121 pages

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.

Book Death At The Chase

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755120930
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book Death At The Chase written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When master sleuth, Appleby, leaps over a stile during a country stroll, he is apprehended by an irate Martyn Ashmore, owner of the land. Eccentric, aged Ashmore reveals that he is in fear for his life - once every year, someone attempts to murder him.

Book A Private View

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Innes
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2010-02-20
  • ISBN : 0755121112
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book A Private View written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John and Lady Appleby attend a memorial exhibition of artist Gavin Limbert, who was recently found shot, under very suspicious circumstances. As Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sir John is already interested, but he becomes more intrigued when Limbert's last masterpiece is stolen.