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 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 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.

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 175 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 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.

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.

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 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 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 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 Hamlet Revenge written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Seamnum Court, seat of the Duke of Horton, The Lord Chancellor of England is murdered at the climax of a private presentation of Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius. Inspector Appleby pursues some of the most famous names in the country, unearthing dreadful suspicion.

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.

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.

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.

Download or read book Short Story Index written by Dorothy Elizabeth Cook and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 189 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 Going It Alone 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: Gilbert Averell avoids some of the rigours of taxation by living for part of each year in France. His look-alike friend, Georges, suggests that they swap passports for a short spell, and Gilbert seizes the opportunity. However, a number of incidents, suggest the offer was not made out of simple friendship.