Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
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?

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092777 (July, 2024), 206 p., $18.99.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
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?

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504089944 (October, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 208 p.), $15.99.

Michael Innes: Appleby Plays Chicken (2001)

From the Publisher:
David was hiking across Dartmoor, pleased to have escaped the oppressively juvenile and sometimes perilous behaviour of his fellow undergraduates. As far as he could tell, he was the only human being for miles - but it turns out that he was the only living human being for miles. At least, that is what he presumed when he found a dead man on top of the tor.

Michael Innes: Appleby Plays Chicken. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327216 (April, 2001), 198 p., £6.99, $11.50.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
Student David Henchman, having been chosen as "chicken" in a game of nerves, decides to escape his boisterous classmate tormentors to spend a quiet day in the country. But he gets more than he bargained for when he comes across a man with a bullet hole in his head. So begins a nightmare of frenzied pursuit featuring a disappearing corpse, a mad race from a killer on the moors, a steeplechase, a panicky girl, a flight by automobile, and an ivy-covered tower that contains the secret of death on a quiet day.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day. A Sir John Appleby Mystery. Harper Perennial, ISBN: 0060921374 (January, 1991), 209 p., $8.00.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
Student David Henchman decides to spend a quiet day in the country to escape from his boisterous classmate tormentors but gets more than he bargains for when he comes across a man with a bullet hole in his head. So begins a tale of frenzied pursuit featuring a disappearing corpse, a mad race from a killer on the moors, a panicky girl, a flight by automobile, and an ivy-covered tower that contains the secret of death on a quiet day.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, Perennial Library P677, ISBN: 006080677X, 209 p., $2.95.

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day (USA 1963)

From the Publisher:
QUIET DAY, QUIET WALK - UNQUIET DEATH
It's a nice quiet day for a walk, and young David Henchman feels that he owns the deserted English countryside. But he doesn't. The first thing he finds himself sharing it with is a dead body. Then he's sharing it with two men, intent on his life. Or is it FOUR men?

Thoroughly panicked, David runs, and runs, and runs; and lucky for him, his final, desperate maneuver brings him slap-bang under the astute and inquisitive eye of Inspector John Appleby.

"...a singularly nippy chase which promises to drop of exhaustion a dozen times and each time meets so brac- ing anew menace that it leaps right up before it ever set- tles down." - James Sandoe, New York Herald Tribune

Michael Innes: Death on a Quiet Day. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1963, Berkley Medallion Book F849, 208 p., 50¢.

Michael Innes: Appleby Plays Chicken (UK 1961)

From the Publisher:
Alone with death on the 'Moor'
Pleased to have escaped, for a while, the oppressively adolescent and sometimes dangerous behaviour of his fellow undergraduates, David was tramping across Dartmoor. As far as he could tell he was the only human being for miles but it turned out that he was the only living human being for miles. At least, that was what he decided when he found the dead man on top of the tor. But there again he was perilously wrong.

"The chase is super-Innes, full of lively invention and constant twists of fortune" - Time and Tide
"Quite tremendous" - Glasgow Herald

Michael Innes: Appleby Plays Chicken. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961, Penguin Books No. 1576, 218 p., 2/6.