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Portrait painter, Charles Honeybath, is intrigued when he is visited by a mysterious Mr Peach and is commissioned to paint an anonymous, aristocratic sitter, known only as 'Mr X', whom relatives claim is insane. Under cover of night, Honeybath is taken to the house and asked to stay while he completes his work; but when he returns to his studio, he discovers that the bank next door has been robbed and that he is under suspicion!]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:47:22 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/76922-a_private_view.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/76922-a_private_view.html
Sir John and Lady Appleby attend a memorial exhibition of the oils, gouaches, collages and trouvailles 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 even more intrigued when Limbert's last masterpiece is stolen from the gallery under his very eyes.]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:30:33 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363785-going_it_alone.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363785-going_it_alone.html
Gilbert Averell avoids some of the rigours of taxation by living for part of each year in France—but he is unhappy about the number of weeks he spends away from his native country. So when his look-alike friend, Georges, suggests that they swap passports for a short spell, Gilbert seizes the opportunity. However, a number of incidents, involving Gilbert's sister and nephew, begin to suggest that Georges's offer was not made out of simple friendship.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:58:01 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363778-appleby_talks_again.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363778-appleby_talks_again.html
Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends. After his death, it was believed that his mother had burnt the incriminating evidence, but fifty years later, a famous collector of literary curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession 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 and talks about his key role in seventeen more intriguing cases.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:57:56 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/172169-death_at_the_presidents_lodging.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/172169-death_at_the_presidents_lodging.html
Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys?]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:02:56 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/126964-christmas_at_candleshoe.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/126964-christmas_at_candleshoe.html
When an American multi-millionaire is keen to buy an Elizabethan manor, she comes up against fierce opposition from a young boy, Jay, and his band of bowmen, who are prepared to defend the manor and its nonagerian owner against all comers. It seems likely that that behind a monumental, seventeenth-century carving, by the hand of Gerard Christmas, lies a hoard of treasure.]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:04:21 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363783-hamlet_revenge.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363783-hamlet_revenge.html
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When master sleuth, Appleby, leaps over a stile during a country stroll, he is apprehended by an irate Martyn Ashmore, owner of the land on which Appleby has unwittingly trespassed. But when the misunderstanding is cleared up, eccentric, aged Ashmore reveals that he is in fear for his life—once every year, someone attempts to murder him. Is it the French Resistance, or a younger Ashmore on the make? When Martyn dies, Appleby sets out to find who exactly is responsible.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:57:49 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/349289-stop_press.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/349289-stop_press.html
Famous writer, Richard Eliot, has written numerous detective novels, featuring 'The Spider', a daring, clever criminal in earlier books, and an equally canny private investigator in later ones. But when he comes to life - first to burgle an odd neighbour, then to harass the Eliot family, and finally to attend his own 'birthday party' - Inspector John Appleby is sent to investigate.]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:36:07 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363798-appleby_at_allington.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363798-appleby_at_allington.html
Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end, but just as Appleby is leaving they find a dead man electrocuted in the son et lumière box which had been installed in the grounds.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:58:12 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363800-appleby_and_the_ospreys.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363800-appleby_and_the_ospreys.html
Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate detective, Sir John Appleby. In the matter of bats, 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.]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:58:14 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363792-from_london_far.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363792-from_london_far.html
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. From then on he is trapped in a maze of the illicit art trade, in the company of the redoubtable Jane Halliwell.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:58:07 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363794-what_happened_at_hazelwood_.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363794-what_happened_at_hazelwood_.html
The Simney family, of Hazelwood Hall, have a dubious history. Sir George Simney, who was travelling in Australia before the baronetcy fell to him, sleeps with a shotgun by his side. When he is found dead in the library, the Reverend Adrian Deamer will not rest until he has discovered who is responsible. This is an absorbing tale narrated by Simney's widow, Nicolette, and by young Harold, who has just joined the C.I.D.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:58:09 +0200 https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363780-the_long_farewell.html https://graycity.net/michael-innes/363780-the_long_farewell.html
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, who might all have a good motive for murder. The scholars and bibliophiles who were present might have been tempted by the precious document in Packford's possession. And Appleby discovers that Packford had two secret marriages, and that both of these women were at the house at the time of his death.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:57:57 +0200