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. Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories ...
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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. Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholar. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, Death at the President's Lodging . With his second, Hamlet Revenge , Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the Journeying Boy , a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. His most famous character is John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in The Mysterious Commission . The last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys , was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. top of pages dusty else near fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, price clipped, with protective mylar cover.
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Good in Good jacket. Shelf wear on both book and jacket. ex-library copy with stamps, some scarring and a library pocket. title page is missing. contents are clear, legible and intact. fairly good copy. [SK]
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Sir John Appleby attends a costume charity event at which an unusual number of guests are dressed as sheiks, including one authentic sheik, and one of the posers is murdered. First U.S. printing. Spine heel gently bumped. Jacket very gently rubbed with a tiny nick to the upper rear flap fold, in Brodart.
