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The Michael Innes Omnibus
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Michael Innes |
> Three tensely exhilarating novels *Death at the President's Lodging*, *Hamlet, Revenge!* and *The Daffodil Affair* make up
>**THE MICHAEL INNES OMNIBUS**
>Clues baffle and suspects abound whe… |
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A Connoisseur's Case
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Michael Innes |
> When John Appleby's wife, Judith, sets eyes on Scroop House, she insists that they introduce themselves to the owners - a suggestion that makes her sometimes reserved husband turn very pale. When J… |
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Hamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
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Michael Innes |
> Murder at Scamnum Court, the grandest of England's stately homes, a treasure-house guarded only by the marble deities that line its terraces. And murder during a performance of *Hamlet*, played on … |
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Lament for a Maker (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
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Michael Innes |
When mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, falls from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded his life, and the grim legends of the bl… |
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Appleby and Honeybath
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Michael Innes |
From Goodreads: "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… |
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The Case of the Journeying Boy
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Michael Innes |
Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests … |
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The mysterious commission
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Michael Innes |
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 clai… |
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The open house
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Michael Innes |
When Inspector Appleby's car breaks down on a deserted road one dark night, he happens upon an imposing mansion, whose windows are all illuminated. His sense of curiosity gets the better of him when … |
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Death on a Quiet Day
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Michael Innes |
> Student David Henchman decides to spend a quiet day in the country to escape from his boisterous classmate tormentors but gets more than he bargains for when he comes across a man with a bullet hol… |
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The gay phoenix
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Michael Innes |
When tycoon, Charles Povey, is killed in a bizarre boating accident, his corrupt, look-alike brother, Arthur, adopts his identity and his financial empire. But the charade becomes complicated when on… |
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Going it alone
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Michael Innes |
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… |
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Appleby's Answer
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Michael Innes |
Is a famous mystery writer unwittingly orchestrating an actual murder? |
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The daffodil affair
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Michael Innes |
Penguin Classic Crime, 1964 edition, 212 pp.
The epub version had significant errors but the .pdf was okay. I found the version in Innes trilogy a bit more readable though. One of Innes "fantastical… |
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Operation Pax
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Michael Innes |
> What kind of research was really going on at Milton Manor Clinic? What exactly was Formula 10? If it hadn't been for the blundering intervention of a cheap con-man on the run, Appleby would never h… |
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From London Far
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Michael Innes |
> A random scrap of Augustan poetry muttered in a tobacconist's shop thrusts absent-minded scholar Richard Meredith through a trap-door into short-lived leadership of London's greatest art racket. Th… |
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The Secret Vanguard
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Michael Innes |
> On an ordinary train journey to Scotland, Sheila Grant becomes embroiled in a plot that is anything but: a chemist has gone missing, an artist has been kidnapped, and a poet has been murdered.
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The weight of the evidence
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Michael Innes |
Inspector Appleby arrives at Nesfield University to investigate the very strange death of Professor Pluckrose, struck on the head by a falling meteorite. The Inspector is there because a) it didn’t … |
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Appleby's other story
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Michael Innes |
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 Tythe… |
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Lament for a maker
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Michael Innes |
This novel records events surrounding the dramatic, snow-bound death of a universally despised Scottish laird - was it suicide, did he fall, or was he pushed? The story is told, at length, by a serie… |
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The long farewell
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Michael Innes |
Driving through Italy, Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard calls on his old acquaintance Lewis Packford. Their conversation over dinner ranges from Shakespeare to the psychology of forgery. Later, back… |
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