Silence Observed - Softcover

Innes, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060808799 ISBN 13: 9780060808792

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1988

Synopsis

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! In the words of Appleby himself: "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Just a little mad, for a start. Inclined, say, to unreasonable jokes in the course of business. But later—well, very mad indeed."

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's director of education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. In 1936 he wrote his first mystery story, Death at the President's Lodging. With his second, Hamlet Revenge, he firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, he returned to the UK where in 1949 he wrote the Journeying Boy, a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a reader in English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. The last of the Innes novels, Appleby and the Ospreys, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. The Times Literary Supplement said of him: "A Master—he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go."

Review:

"Inimitable blend of urbanity, fantasy, erudition, and violence." --Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0060808799
• ISBN 13: 9780060808792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224