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When half of the guests at a charity masquerade f^te at Drool Court turn up dressed as sheiks, it must be more than pure coincidence. One of them is the real thing, however, and Sir John Appleby, master detective, discovers that he is in grave danger. When one of the pseudo-sheiks if murdered, Appleby finds himself in the midst of an international political crisis.Tags
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This long-running series was begun in 1936, as the detective himself reminds us part way through the book. In his 32nd outing, Sir John Appleby attends a charity fete masquerade, after meeting the daughter of the house sobbing in the woods because her father won't let her boyfriend come as a sheik. Sir John becomes more suspicious when he finds many sheiks and pseudo-sheiks wandering the grounds. It's all good fun, in typical Innes-ian style.
Appleby is invited to a large fete. He discovers an oil sheik there, mingling with the guests and decides his host is up to something. And what's with the Druids?
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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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- Original publication date
- 1982
- People/Characters
- John Appleby; Judith Appleby
- Important places
- Drool Court
- First words
- John Appleby, although a knight, would not have thought of himself as one likely to turn knight-errant.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'So he had better be given a decoration as well.'
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 4
