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Eighteen short stories sure to delight and intrigue the most astute armchair detective In typical Appleby fashion, these mysteries are as comical as they are perplexing and endlessly entertaining. Leading the reader through dusty library shelves, dark alleys and decaying mansions and filled with tales of murder and mischief, ghosts and goblins, Appleby Talks Again is a witty, offbeat collection of Golden Age mysteries from one of the most esteemed writers of Classic Crime. Appleby Talks Again was first published in 1956.

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Mr. Innes is in a class by himself among detective story writers. -- Times Literary Supplement A number of really funny, and more or less, properly puzzling stories here. -- Amazon Reviewer All from the talented pen of Michael Innes and all well written, quirky and often very witty indeed. -- Amazon Reviewer Treat this as a book to be dipped into, rather than read at one sitting - small chocolate eclairs, however delicious, ought not to be consumed in quantity, all at once. -- Amazon Reviewer Humorous, light, comical, and quintessentially British. -- Amazon Reviewer

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Michael Innes is the pseudonym of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 - 12 November 1994). Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under his pseudonym. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other identity , and vice versa. Innes published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections in his lifetime, but is best known for creating Detective Inspector Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, who eventually through the course of the later novels becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He attended Edinburgh Academy, and later studied English literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Having lectured in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, he would then become Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Once he returned to the United Kingdom he lectured at Queens, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he was a professor of the university. He died in Coulsdon.

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