Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
A Scotland Yard detective probes a string of strange disappearances and paranormal phenomena in this classic British mystery adventure.
Insp. John Appleby has his hands full. It begins when his aunt's horse, Daffodil, disappears from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Appleby's colleague, Superintendent Hudspith, is searching for a missing young woman by the name of Lucy Rideout. But the most bizarre case is the vanishing of a supposedly haunted house in Bloomsbury.

Working together, the puzzled policemen soon find the cases are connected. But what exactly is going on? The answer to that question lies with a madman in the Amazonian jungle...

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092432 (April, 2024), 230 p., $19.99.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (USA 2023)

Working together, the puzzled policemen soon find the cases are connected. But what exactly is going on? The answer to that question lies with a madman in the Amazonian jungle...

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504088411 (June, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 230 p.), $14.99.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable I Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of Lucy Rideout, an enigmatic young girl has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman. And when a house in Bloomsbury, supposedly haunted, also goes missing, the baffled policemen search for a connection. As Appleby and Hudspith trace Daffodil and Lucy, the fragments begin to come together and an extravagant project is uncovered, leading them to South American jungle.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327305 (January, 2001), 230 p., $11.50.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
While Inspector Appleby's aunt assigns her favourite cab-horse to Scotland Yard's missing persons file, Mrs Rideout is 'equally distressed at the loss of her daughter.

Appleby, mystified by the motive for stealing Daffodil, a half-witted horse with exceptional numerical skills, travels to Harrogate to learn more. Meanwhile Hudspith, also of the Yard, is hot on the trail of Lucy Rideout. The enigmatic young girl seems to have been magicked away 'to an unknown isle by a foreign gentleman. When a London house, said to be haunted, also vanishes in mysterious circumstances, the baffled policemen begin searching for a connection.

As they trace the missing Daffodil and Lucy half-way across the world, the fragments begin to come together. Someone, somewhere, is assembling a huge psychic circus - a project 'extravagant beyond the compass of a story-teller's art'.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 014011498X (February, 1990), 208 p., £3.99.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
INSPECTOR JOHN APPLEBY VISITS UTOPIA IN THE DEEP JUNGLES OF SOUTH AMERICA -- AND TANGLES WITH A HIGHLY SPIRITED CONSPIRACY.

- An eccentric English schoolgirl disappears, leaving a most cryptic note.
- A half-witted horse is spirited away from its stable.
- The notorious witch of Haworth sells her broom and caldron, then abandons her ancestral home.
- A haunted house vanishes overnight from a London Street.

Clearly, there are some mysterious demons at work, and it is up to Inspector John Appleby to uncover their source. Even his cool, rational mind may not be enough, however, to defeat an evil genius with other- worldly support.

"This opus is scintillating, shrewd, and fearlessly and hilariously highbrow." -- The New York Times

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. A Sir John Appleby Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140022023 (July, 1984), 203 p., $3.50.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (UK 1972)

From the Publisher:
Possibly the zaniest Of all Michael Innes's crime fantasies.
The Simultaneous disappearances, in wartime, ofa half-witted girl from London, and a half-witted horse from Harrogate, and a haunted house from Bloomsbury take Appleby off to South America, where he unearths something more evil than the white slave trade.

'His new highbrow thriller is yet another surprising firework display of wit and erudition and ingenious invention' - Guardian
'Strangely thrilling' - Daily Sketch

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, ISBN: 0140022023, 202 p., 30p.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (UK 1964)

'His new highbrow thriller is yet another surprising firework display of wit and erudition and ingenious invention' - Guardian
'Strangely thrilling' - Daily Sketch

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964, Penguin Book No. C2202, 202 p., 3'6.

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair (USA 1964)

From the Publisher:
A FLOWER IN APPLEBY'S CAP
Investigating the theft of a valueless horse might seem unworthy work for Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, but the case gets rather intriguing on closer study. For example, there are further disappearances, as improbable as that of the horse, and seemingly climaxed by that of an entire London house! Appleby, who by this time couldn't be dragged from the case, sets off in stubborn pursuit of the lost and finds, at the end of one of the longest and most hazardous trails on the face of the earth, the truly Fantastic...

"...scintillating, shrewd and fearlessly and hilariously highbrow." -- New York Times
"...a honey of a mystery, one that will grace any list" -- Will Cuppy, Books

Michael Innes: The Daffodil Affair. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1964, Berkley Medallion Book No. F925, 176 p., 50¢.