Download or read book Appleby at Allington written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate Martin, whose name Appleby recognises. By the end of the evening Appleby and Allington have found a dead man.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 s Other Story 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: 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 The New Sonia Wayward 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: 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.

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 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.

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.