Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Appleby is stranded on a very strange island, with a rather odd bunch of people - too many men, too few women (and one of them too attractive) cause a deal of trouble. But that is nothing compared to later developments, including the body afloat in the water, and the attack by local inhabitants.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327151 (January, 2001), 192 p., $11.50.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
During the bleak days of the Second World War, Appleby visits a pleasant tropical island in the South Seas, where he encounters an assortment of colonial expatriates, Eurasians, and natives. The scenery is spectacular, the conversation droll and civilized, but ominous events portend imminent disaster on this quiet refuge.

"Richness is Mr. Innes's quality. Every sentence he writes has flavour, every incident flamboyance ... - Times [London] Literary Supplement
"Superbly plotted and humorously written." - The New Yorker
"A diverting and always clever tale." - The New York Times

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. Harper Perennial, ISBN: 0060806486 (February, 1991), 261 p., $2.95.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (UK 1968)

From the Publisher:
A bizarre group has been shipwrecked on an island which, as Appleby later discovers, is no romantic Utopia - despite the disturbing presence of Diana Kittery. Later developments are as mysterious as their surroundings: the floating body, the locals' attack, and the stranger with his lazy dog. Mr Innes spices every incident with intrigue.

'Spectacularly exciting, an excellent thriller' - Listener

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, Penguin Books No. 1577, 217 p., 3'6.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (USA 1964)

From the Publisher:
APPLEBY'S NOAH NOAH
When Inspector Appleby hazards the peculiar dangers of wartime travel in the South Pacific, he experiences a kind of latter day deluge. This disaster precipitates a closer relationship with some of his fellow voyagers than Appleby would ordinarily think desirable.

They become, in a sense, his charges; and Miss Curricle, Mrs. Kittery, Mr. Hoppo, Colonel Glover and Sir Ponto Unumunu are certainly a mixed bag. But in the pinch, they prove to be the stoutest of fellows -- on or off any Ararat.

"... this belongs with Mr. Innes's major productions." - Will Cuppy, Books "Superbly plotted and humorously written, this is one of the outstanding mysteries of the year." - New Yorker

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. A Sir John Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley Pub. corp., 1964, Berkley Medallion F947, 175 p., 50c.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (UK 1961)

From the Publisher:
It was a strange collection of people shipwrecked on the island, and as Appleby found out later, it was a very strange Island. At first it seemed like the classic situation - too many men, too few women, and one of them too attractive. But this was a minor trouble compared with later developments: the body floating in the water, the attack by the local inhabitants, the strange man with his very lazy dog.

'Every sentence he writes has flavour, every Incident flamboyance' - The Times Literary Supplement
'Spectacularly exciting, an excellent thriller' - Edwin Muir in the Listener

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961, Penguin Books No. 1577, 217 p., 2'6.

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat (USA 1941)

From the Publisher:
APPLEBY was a Chief Inspector of Detectives from Scotland Yard. Ararat was a small tropical island, so called by the little group of survivors who landed on it in the strangest of arks when their steamer was torpedoed a few days out from Australia. Fate had already led these castaways into queer quirks, but none so queer as those surprises to come. Grimmest of these was sudden and violent death to one of the little party. Before that gory mystery was solved, Appleby began to suspect that perhaps Ararat wasn't as solitary as he first believed -- suspicions that were later to be violently jolted by the truth.

As Michael Innes readers will expect, the pages of this story sparkle with wit and brilliant badinage. Here is the most delectable of literary caviar - "caviar," to quote Judge Lynch in The Saturday Review, §of the very best grade, with every bead a pearl."

Michael Innes: Appleby on Ararat. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941, 254 p., $2.00.