Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
From a British mystery author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives (The Times Literary Supplement).

Scandal is at stake for London's fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield's sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age where they'd hoped such stories would follow them to their graves. Fortunately, Scotland Yard's most brilliant inspector is on the case. Sir John Appleby wittily reveals his intellectual prowess in solving this crime, as well as seventeen other puzzling mysteries in this stimulating collection of short stories. From acclaimed Scottish author Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again is a must-read for fans of classic crime fiction.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again. 18 Detective Stories. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092760 (July, 2024), 214 p., $18.99.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From a British mystery author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives (The Times Literary Supplement).

Scandal is at stake for London's fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield's sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age where they'd hoped such stories would follow them to their graves. Fortunately, Scotland Yard's most brilliant inspector is on the case. Sir John Appleby wittily reveals his intellectual prowess in solving this crime, as well as seventeen other puzzling mysteries in this stimulating collection of short stories. From acclaimed Scottish author Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again is a must-read for fans of classic crime fiction.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again. 18 Detective Stories. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504089937 (October, 2023), eBook, 6 MB (ca. 208 p.), $14.99.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again (2001)

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Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends. After his death, it was believed that his mother had burnt the incriminating evidence, but fifty years later, a famous collector of literary curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession and threatens to blackmail fashionable London with belated secrets about people now in respectable old age. Sir John Appleby reveals how he uncovered this unscrupulous crime and talks about his key role in seventeen more intriguing cases.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327232 (January, 2001), 198 p., £6.99, $11.50.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again (UK 1966)

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Raiph Dangerfield was an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day: He kept a scandalous and compromising diary, and in it recorded the intimate details of his own life, and those of his friends...

When he died, it was believed his mother had managed to burn the incriminating evidence... and for nearly fifty years Ralph Dangerfield was forgotten.

Suddenly, a famous collector of literary rarities and curiosities claims to have the diary in his possession, and threatens to black-mail fashionable London with its belated scandal about people now in respectable old age...

Sir John Appleby, Assistant Commissioner of Police and detective-raconteur without rival, reveals how he uncovers this unscrupulous ruse just in time. He also talks about his dramatic role in seventeen other intriguing cases -- such as when a deserted Elizabethan house comes to brilliant life again just for one night... about a soldier who returns from the dead... about the mysterious disappearance of a masterpiece.

Michael Innes: Appleby Talks Again. Eighteen ingenious tales of detection, by the creator of Appleby. London: New English Library, 1966, Four Square Books No. 1457, 158 p., 3'6.