Michael Innes: A Private View (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
From a British Golden Age author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," Sir John Appleby solves an art world crime (The Times Literary Supplement).

When Sir John Appleby is persuaded by Lady Appleby to attend an art exhibit, he believes he is only appeasing his wife, a sculptress herself, and quite the art collector, too. But when Appleby learns the show is a memorial exhibition for recently murdered artist Gavin Limbert, his interest is piqued, to say the least. Especially when Limbert's latest masterpiece is stolen from the gallery right under his nose. But this is no matter for Scotland Yard's most brilliant inspector. Once Appleby puts his clever mind to the case, he'll follow every twist and turn in this mystery until he uncovers the astonishing truth.

Michael Innes: A Private View. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092746 (May, 2024), 218 p., $18.99.

Michael Innes: A Private View (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From a British Golden Age author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," Sir John Appleby solves an art world crime (The Times Literary Supplement).

When Sir John Appleby is persuaded by Lady Appleby to attend an art exhibit, he believes he is only appeasing his wife, a sculptress herself, and quite the art collector, too. But when Appleby learns the show is a memorial exhibition for recently murdered artist Gavin Limbert, his interest is piqued, to say the least. Especially when Limbert's latest masterpiece is stolen from the gallery right under his nose. But this is no matter for Scotland Yard's most brilliant inspector. Once Appleby puts his clever mind to the case, he'll follow every twist and turn in this mystery until he uncovers the astonishing truth.

Michael Innes: A Private View. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504089913 (October, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 218 p.), $15.99.

Michael Innes: A Private View (2001)

From the Publisher:
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.

Michael Innes: A Private View. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327526 (July, 2002), 202 p., $9.95.

Michael Innes: One Man Show (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard is unwittingly swept up into an imbroglio with the smart set when he attends a private gallery opening with his wife and in an astonishing course of events deals with paintings stolen from an aristocrat's mansion, a mad chase, and of course, the inevitable murder.

"It begins with a stunning description of a lecture by Mervyn Twist, the art critic, to a group of people in the gallery where the show opening takes place. The account of the facial expressions of the listeners is a marvel, and the ensuing events live up to this flourish of virtuosity... Innes' undoubted masterpiece." -- Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime

Michael Innes: One Man Show. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, ISBN: 0060806729, Perennial Library P672, 223 p., $2.95.

Michael Innes: One-Man Show (USA 1975)

From the Publisher:
When Scotland Yard's Sir John Appleby was asked to help "shove a naked woman head-first into a fruit crate, he knew the case was going to be one of those. And it didn't get any more orderly, what with the lady whose hobby was raiding night clubs, the duke with the missing aquarium, interlocking spy rings, and the loathesome Chelsea antique shop. Somehow, the murder and theft that started the whole thing, and Appleby's own kidnapping, which nearly ended it -- and him -- seemed almost pleasantly straightforward by comparison. But most of Appleby's cases were like that...

Michael Innes: One-Man Show. Ballantine Mystery No. 24553 (August, 1975), 186 p., $1.25.

Michael Innes: One Man Show (USA 1970)

From the Publisher:
"A shrewdly plotted, suavely written mystery tale." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
TABLEAU OF TERROR
Perhaps it was improper, or even indecent, but she couldn't help it. She loved Gavin and she loved to watch him paint, so she crept down the fire escape to peep in on him. Peering through the little holes in the shutters, she saw the man at the easel -- but it wasn't Gavin! Gavin lay on the floor nearby with the top of his head blown off!

Michael Innes: One Man Show. A Gallery of spies and counterspies, artists and art thieves, their portraits painted in blood. Avon Classic Crime Collection No. PN294 (5th printing June, 1970), 174 p., 95¢.

Michael Innes: One Man Show (USA 1965)

From the Publisher:
Perhaps it was improper, or even indecent, but she couldn't help it. She loved Gavin and she loved to watch him paint, so she crept down the fire escape to peep in on him. Peering through the little holes in the shutters, she saw the man at the easel -- but it wasn't Gavin! GAVIN LAY ON THE FLOOR NEARBY WITH THE TOP OF HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF!

"It all tends to demonstrate once again that Mr. Innes is the most adeptly and allusively elephantine wit presently committed to the English language." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Michael Innes: One Man Show. New York: Avon Books, 1965, Avon Mystery G-1273, 174 p., 50¢.

Michael Innes: Murder is an Art (USA 1959)

From the Publisher:
Commissionor Appleby evaluated the situation. He was locked in this van speeding through London, and the criminals were driving it. But Vermeer's Aquarium -- that priceless painting which had caused all the stealing and the murders -- was right here with him.

Of course he must consider the chaps trailing the van -- a green Humber, a motorcycle, and that Baby Austin. Did they all belong to one gang, or to rival gangs, each bent on nipping the Vermeer?

Commissioner Appleby arrived at a conclusion.
It didn't matter. He had the Vermeer, and a pistol besides.
One shot would bring a dozen constables on the run. By Jove, he might nab the whole lot of them!
He checked the pistol. It was empty...

Michael Innes: Murder is an Art. New York: Avon Books, 1959, Avon T-351, 174 p., 35¢.

Michael Innes: One-Man Show (USA 1952)

From the Publisher:
Someone had stolen Vermeer's Aquarium from the Duke of Horton's palatial galleries. Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard had seen the purloined masterpiece -- had even been importuned to buy it, just before it was spirited away from under his nose at a one-man show. There follows a pursuit of the picture which will delight all Innes readers, leading as it does to the amazing Thomas Carlyle night club; to the cosmic confusion of Mr. Steptoe's mammoth junk shop in London; and to the multiple studios on Gas Street of an artist who had died and a girl who had strangely disappeared and a sculpture-minded artist who drew nude statues in the form "Suavely erudite, ingenuously plotted, crammed with sinister or eccentrically amazing characters," wrote Orville Prescott of The New York Times in his review of the author's THE PAPER THUNDERBOLT. Here are the same qualities again, in delectable combination, the quintessence of Innes, topped off by a thunderous and completely unpredictable ending.

Michael Innes: One-Man Show. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1952, 192 p., $2.50.