Michael Innes: Appleby at Allington (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
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 lumihre box which had been installed in the grounds.

Michael Innes: Appleby at Allington. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327135 (January, 2000), 178 p., $11.50.

Michael Innes: Death by Water (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
Sir John Appleby, retired chief commissioner of Metropolitan Police, was visiting Allington Park, a partially restored estate dating back to Charles I. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John noticed a bundle in the corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he said grimly, "It's a man and I think he's dead."

"This book displays Michael Innes's strong talents at their best. The amount of ironic social criticism and deft characterization of scenes and people would serve another author for six books." - Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime

Michael Innes: Death by Water. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Harper & Row / Perennial Library, ISBN: 0060805749 (January (?), 1982), 214 p., $2.50.

Michael Innes: Appleby at Allington (UK 1971)

From the Publisher:
Although Sir John Appleby had retired, his detective's instincts and experience hadn't.

When the first body was discovered at Allington Park, he was quite content to believe that it was an accident. But the second body starts him thinking. Two deaths, one after another, is tragic coincidence and Sir John doesn't believe in coincidence.

So he digs around. How did Owain Allington buy back the family estate? Why was he so attached to his rather dissolute nephew, Martin Allington?

In a recent 'Son et Lumière', there had been mention of treasure at Allington Park. But everyone who could gain from it had shrugged it off as pure fiction.

Only some of them had shrugged it off a lot more intensely than others.

Michael Innes: Appleby at Allington. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971, SBN: 14 003 122 7, 178 p., 25p 5/-.

Michael Innes: Death by Water (USA 1969)

From the Publisher:
CORNERED
It all began when Sir John Apploby, retired Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, made a visit to Allington Park, a neighboring estate being restored to past glories. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John noticed a bundle in a corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he said grimly: "It's a man. And I think he's dead."

So begins this tragic, yet amusing divertissement of repeated death by misadventure. An old castle, a gay village charity fete, a unique assembly of human oddments among the characters -- these and a legendary lost treasure add up to, what, in Sir John's own words, "that chap in Baker Street called a two-pipe mystery."

"A model of puzzle-construction." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Buried treasure and bodies for fine and witty puzzlement." -- Chicago Tribune

Michael Innes: Death by Water. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Berkley Medallion Books, SBN: 425-01738-9 (September, 1969), 214 p., 60c.