Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842327143 (July, 2002), 190 p., $11.50.
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Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer (1985) From the Publisher: "Innes fans will find the familiar mixture of elegance, cleverness and the near-preposterous, and will be more than pleased." -- San Francisco Examiner Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer. Penguin, ISBN: 0140039813 (October, 1985), 157 p., £1.95, $3.50.
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Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer (UK 1973) From the Publisher: Moreover, she has another and even deeper reason for visiting Long Canings. The novel has opened in a railway compartment where she received a quite embarrassing proposal from a very odd fellow-traveller who suggested a form of literary collaboration: he will pay her no less a sum than £500 for an ingenious murder plot. It is all too clear to Miss Pringle that he has in mind not a fictional but an actual murder, and at first she declines the proposal firmly. However, now she's on her way to meet him again; and his address is the Old Rectory, Long Canings. The story she devises is certainly elaborate: a plan that ritualistically involves the four elements -- but alas, the plot is thicker than Miss Pringle realises. So it's lucky for her that Sir John Appleby, some time Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police but now in uneasy retirement, happens to be visiting the neighbourhood. It's all most delicious, and builds up to a splendid denouement in which the principal performer is a highly obstreperous goat. Here is Michael Innes at his most unbuttoned; the result is a joy. Michael Innes: Appleby's Answer. A new novel in which the author combines some intricately plotted detection with gay & even hilarious jeu d'esprit. Gollancz, ISBN: 0575013966 (January, 1973), 192 p., £1.60.
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