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Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rather cynical professional interest. His wife has taken a lover, Rupert Slade, and Arbuthnot wants nothing more than to see him dead - but the last thing he expected was that he'd walk into his living room and find just that! Inspector Appleby shares the details of this and many other fascinating crimes in this un-missable collection.Tags
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A collection of Appleby short stories. Some are narrated by Appleby himself, others are told in the 3rd person. Some are straightforward detective fiction/thrillers. Others are just the build up to a pun, and in still others Appleby is definitely pulling his listeners' legs.
Amusing but not really engaging.
Amusing but not really engaging.
A collection of short stories in which Innes' detective, Inspector Appleby, describes for the edification of his friends various cases in which he has been involved. They tend toward the bizarre, with some rather exotic rabbits being pulled from hats as the solutions. I think this is not to be read at one sitting, as the tricks wear after a bit. Dip into it from time to time, instead, and it will be more rewarding.
Where Inspector Appleby recounts some of his cases to a few of his friends over drinks. These are mainly very short stories, unfortunately too short to really get involved in the stories and characters. But enjoyable enough when you have a spare ten minutes to spend reading.
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Anthony Boucher's Best Crime Fiction of the Year
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Author Information
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh. He attended Oxford where he studied English. He taught English in universities at the University of Adelaide, in South Australia. Stewart published novels, short stories, studies in literature, biographies, and plays. Under his name, he wrote scholarly works such as Character and Motive in show more Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and Thomas Hardy. As Michael Innes, he wrote over fifty detective novels with Inspector John Appleby of Scotland Yard in London as the main character. These titles include Death at the President's Lodging, The Journeying Boy, Lament for a Maker, Operation Pax, the Crabtree Affair and Silence Observed. Stewart died on November 12, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Queen's Quorum (Supplements – 112)
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Prisma detectives (96)
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Appleby Talks
- Original title
- Appleby Talking
- Alternate titles
- Dead Man's Shoes
- Original publication date
- 1954
- People/Characters
- John Appleby
- Related movies
- "Detective": Lesson in Anatomy (1968 | TV episode | IMDb)
- First words
- ["Appleby's First Case"]
"My first case?" - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)["The Lion and the Unicorn"]
"They're coming!" he said.
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- Reviews
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- (3.25)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 8
