Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (USA 2024)

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A Scotland Yard detective investigates when gunfire disrupts an aristocratic family's Christmas celebrations in this classic British mystery.
The relatives of Sir Basil Roper are gathering to celebrate Christmas at the family's ancestral home in Yorkshire. While the ancient estate has remained unchanged for centuries, the surrounding area now features neon signs, a textile mill, and a brewery.

Even so, Arthur Ferryman is happy to be there and looking forward to a peaceful holiday. Unfortunately, many of his cousins have taken up pistol shooting for a new hobby. Making matters worse, the family learns that Basil plans to sell the place.

With the mood of the party soured, quarreling begins, and tension mounts. Before you can say, "Bah humbug," a gun is fired, and one of the revelers is shot.

Soon, Arthur finds himself assisting Insp. John Appleby with his investigation. Together they must navigate family secrets and grudges to find a shooter before someone else gets a bullet for Christmas...

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092074 (April, 2024), 218 p., $18.99.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
A Scotland Yard detective investigates when gunfire disrupts an aristocratic family's Christmas celebrations in this classic British mystery.
The relatives of Sir Basil Roper are gathering to celebrate Christmas at the family's ancestral home in Yorkshire. While the ancient estate has remained unchanged for centuries, the surrounding area now features neon signs, a textile mill, and a brewery.

Even so, Arthur Ferryman is happy to be there and looking forward to a peaceful holiday. Unfortunately, many of his cousins have taken up pistol shooting for a new hobby. Making matters worse, the family learns that Basil plans to sell the place.

With the mood of the party soured, quarreling begins, and tension mounts. Before you can say, "Bah humbug," a gun is fired, and one of the revelers is shot.

Soon, Arthur finds himself assisting Insp. John Appleby with his investigation. Together they must navigate family secrets and grudges to find a shooter before someone else gets a bullet for Christmas...

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504087957 (May, 2023), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 218 p.), $15.99.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (2001)

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Stunning Belrive Priory, consisting of a mansion, park and medieval ruins, is surrounded by the noise and neon signs of its gaudy neighbours - a cotton-mill, a brewey and a main road. Nevertheless, Arthur Ferryman is pleased to return for a family Christmas, but is shocked to discover that his cousins have taken up a new pastime - pistol-shooting.

Inspector Appleby arrives on the scene when one of Ferryman's cousins is found shot dead in the study, in a mystery built on family antagonisms.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327577 (July, 2001), 198 p., £6.99, $9.95.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (UK 1988)

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This year Christmas at Belrive Priory promises something more than the usual family squabbles. The eccentric Sir Basil Roper intends to sell his ancient and beautiful ancestral home for conversion into a pleasure park -- but will the family let him?

It is fortuitous that Detective-Inspector John Appleby is one of the guests. And he arrives just at the moment Basil's cousin is shot.

As each of the family and friends in turn reveals a motive -- and an opportunity -- for murder, the question is: Who was meant to die, and why?

With a master's touch, Michael Innes provides a superb example of the country-houseparty detective story.

'Both a literary treat and an ingenious puzzle' YORKSHIRE POST

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. An Appleby Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0099547708 (October, 1988), 198 p., £2.99.

Michael Innes: A Comedy of Terrors (USA 1987)

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DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JOHN APPLEBY MEETS THE FOXCROFT FAMILY OVER TEA, BISCUITS, AND MURDER.
All the members of the Foxcroft family have returned to their country estate for a holiday and, perhaps, discussion about some problems of inheritance. They are a witty and talented family, full of eccentricities, jealousies, and schemes. Each one has been given a pistol, for the principal entertainments to be target shooting. But one member of the family seems to have decided to do his shooting in the study, and has chosen Sir Wilfred Foxcroft as a target...

"Mr. Innes writes like an angel.' -- Spectator

Michael Innes: A Comedy of Terrors. A Sir John Appleby Mystery. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140100903 (July, 1987), 241 p., $3.95.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (UK 1968)

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Christmas at Belrive Priory had all the traditional story-book ingredients: medieval ruins, a family reunion, snow... and a body in the study. Such an obvious set-piece presents John Appleby with a witty problem - and his literary flair and imagination are severely tested as he picks a fastidious path past hostile neighbours, gun-toting cousins, canary-fancying brewers and a strangely imaginative crime author towards the most untraditional solution of the mystery.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, Penguin Books No. 1309, 163 p., 4'-.

Michael Innes: A Comedy of Terrors (USA 1964)

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APPLEBY DINES OUT
With uncanny timing, Sir John Appleby arrives at Belrive Priory to keep a dinner engagement at almost the exact moment his host's nephew is shot.

Never was there a more on-the-spot investigation, as Appleby listens, interrogates, and deliberately stirs up the rest of the party. It is a family group, and like most, seems to generate more hostility than loving kindness. But when arrest threatens one of them, the others fall over each other to confess, and Appleby has the devil's own time nailing the real culprit!

"Mr. Innes commands such a battery of wit, subtlety, learning and psychological penetration that he blows almost all opposition clean out of the water." -- Nicholas Blake

Michael Innes: A Comedy of Terrors. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, Berkley Medallion Book No. F983, 159 p., 50¢

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow (UK 1958)

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Belrive Priory consisted of park, mansion, and medieval ruins surrounded by a high wall which failed to cut it off from the noise, clatter, and neon signs of its neighbours - a cotton-mill, a brewery, and a main road. Nevertheless Arthur Ferryman was glad to be returning there for a family Christ- mas. He found on his arrival that his cousins had taken up a new pastime, pistol-shooting, much to his surprise and alarm. His misgivings were later borne out by the family antagonisms which oc- casionally showed themselves - and by his banker cousin who was found in the study, shot through the right lung.

John Appleby arrived on the scene and his investigations upset the family. and its neighbours almost more than the shooting itself. Michael Innes provides vivid portraits of the characters - such as Aunt Lucy, the vague crime author, and Mr Cudbird, shrewd brewer and canary-fancier.

Michael Innes: There Came Both Mist and Snow. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958, Penguin Books No. 1309, 163 p., 2/6.