Appleby S End

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504087940

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Appleby's End by Michael Innes Pdf

A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery. Something’s afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombstones inscribed with deaths yet to come. Det. Insp. John Appleby is travelling by train from London to consult on the case. However, impending his arrival to his connecting train is a terrible snowstorm. Fortunately, a fellow passenger, encyclopedia author Everard Raven, invites Appleby to spend the night at his country estate. Appleby soon has second thoughts about accepting the offer. When they get off the train, they meet more of Raven’s relatives, and they are just as unusual as he is. Next, the station is alarmingly named “Appleby’s End.” And then one of the Ravens’ servants is found dead and buried up to their neck in snow . . . As Appleby investigates, he notices an unusual connection between the servant’s body, the mayhem at Snarl, and even his own arrival in the village. They all resemble scenes from the novels of Everard’s late father. Appleby must determine who is behind this bizarre plot before another member of the Raven household meets a literal end. Praise for Michael Innes & Appleby’s End “Mr. Innes is in a class by himself among detective story writers.” —The Times Literary Supplement “As farfetched and literary as Sayers.” —The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction “Quite a funny book.” —The New Yorker

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120840

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Appleby's End by Michael Innes Pdf

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?

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Orion
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008486212

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Appleby's End by Michael Innes Pdf

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504089944

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Death on a Quiet Day by Michael Innes Pdf

From a British Golden Age author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” Scotland Yard Inspector Appleby helps a student solve a murder (The Times Literary Supplement). On holiday in the English countryside with his fellow university students, young David Henchman sets out alone for a hike across the moor. But instead of finding tranquil solitude, he stumbles upon a dead body. At first, David suspects suicide—until he spots a stranger on the moor. At the sound of gunfire, David flees for his life. Once Inspector Appleby heads to the moors, it seems as if Scotland Yard’s most respected detective might have the matter in hand. But things go south when Appleby discovers the corpse on the moor has been swapped with another dead body. With the investigation underway, are Appleby and David bound to become victims of some perilous game? Praise for Michael Innes and the Inspector Appleby series “Wickedly witty.” —Daily Mail “As farfetched and literary as Sayers.” —The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120857

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Appleby's Other Story by Michael Innes Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781842327531

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The Secret Vanguard by Michael Innes Pdf

Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards, he is found dead in the library with a copy of Dante's Purgatory open before him.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Appleby, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1391562605

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Hamlet, Revenge ! by Michael Innes Pdf

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120758

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Appleby And Honeybath by Michael Innes Pdf

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 and Charles Honeybath have an even more perplexing case on their hands.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120789

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The Appleby File by Michael Innes Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755120765

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Appleby And The Ospreys by Michael Innes Pdf

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.

Author : Paula Brackston
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884113

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Secrets of the Chocolate House by Paula Brackston Pdf

The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston’s The Little Shop of Found Things was called “a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments” (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora’s antique shop. But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared. While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past. This time she'll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755118212

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A Night Of Errors by Michael Innes Pdf

A gruelling night of shrouded motives and confused identities develops when the last of the Dromios is found murdered, with both of his hands burnt off. Inspector Appleby wrenches the facts from a melodrama in which the final solution is written in fire.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755118038

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The Daffodil Affair by Michael Innes Pdf

Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of an enigmatic young girl who has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman.

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755117987

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The Bloody Wood by Michael Innes Pdf

An assorted party of guests have gathered at Charne, home of Charles Martineau and his ailing wife, Grace, including Sir John Appleby and his wife, Judith. When Charles and Grace die on the same day, foul play is suspected.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780552775489

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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Pdf

Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again.After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa. Lawrence Hill's epic novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman.