ISBN: 9781932009927 - appleby talks about crime (lost classics (paperback)) (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Appleby Talks About Crime is a collection of 18 previously uncollected mystery stories by Michael Innes, who is best known for his Inspector Appleby crime seriesMany are told by Appleby himself to the six-member mystery club, and are all as thrilling as one would expect from this legendary figure of the golden age of detective fictionBorn 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 InnesInnes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholarAfter graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of LeedsIn 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelistThe year 1936 saw Innes as professor of english at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, Death at the President's LodgingWith his second, Hamlet Revenge, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writerAfter the end of World War I, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the Journeying Boy, a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish settingHe then settled down as a reader in english literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973His most famous character is John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this dayInnes's other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in The Mysterious Commission The last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition, trade softcover. Published Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 2010, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 179pp. As new. 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.…