Appleby Talks About Crime

Michael Innes [pseud. of John Innes Macintosh Stewart]; John Cooper [ed.]; Margaret Macintosh Harrison [afterword]

ISBN 10: 1932009914 / ISBN 13: 9781932009910

Published by Crippen & Landru, Norfolk, 2010

About this Item

Norfolk: Crippen & Landru, 2010. First Edition, stated. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $28.00 price intact; oatmeal cloth with red lettering to spine; 179pp+10ads. Jacket clean and crisp with faint shelfwear. Boards are sturdy and square. Light rubbing to top edge of a couple pages. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Includes 18 previously uncollected short stories. Part of the publisher's Lost Classics Series.

Seller Inventory # 33222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Appleby Talks About Crime
• Publisher: Crippen & Landru, Norfolk
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932009914
• ISBN 13: 9781932009910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery / Thriller
  • First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

INSPECTOR APPLEBY INVESTIGATES Under the pseudonym of Michael Innes, Oxford don John Innes Macintosh Stewart (1906-1994) was a dominant figure in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, when the mystery story was an elegant and witty entertainment, when all the clues were given so that the reader (if quick-witted enough) could reach the solution at the same time as the detective. Innes's sleuth, Inspector Appleby (later, Sir John Appleby, Commissioner of Scotland Yard), who first appeared in 1936, is sophisticated and educated, just as capable of making an obscure allusion to an English poet as he was to read the clues left by the criminal. The cases Appleby investigates are often convoluted but with a touch of the fantastic, set often in the aristocratic world of country estates and gentleman's clubs. Appleby Talks About Crime includes 18 previously uncollected stories, often told by Appleby himself to the six-member Mystery Club, and all have the marvelous gloss of superb storyteller. The book includes an introduction by the editor, an essay on Appleby by Michael Innes, a reminiscence of her father by Dr. Margaret Macintosh Harrison, and a complete list of all the Appleby short stories. It is edited by John Cooper, who has previously compiled collections by Michael Gilbert and Julian Symons. Appleby Talks About Crime is the 30th in Crippen & Landru's "Lost Classics Series" -- previously uncollected stories by great authors of the past who specialized in traditional mysteries.

About the Author

John is a retired quantity surveyor and office manager. Following early retirement in 2002, his hobbies have included genealogical research, working at his computer, reading and collecting old photographs and postcards, particularly of Watford and Harpenden. Since taking up in 2006, he has had many books published on Herfordshire area. He is a Friend of Watford Museum, and also Cassiobury Park, and enjoys collecting old picture postcards, as well as local history and, of course, writing.