Sir John Appleby

Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories.

Appleby had perhaps the longest career of any of the great detectives. He was born in 1907 or 1908 (in "Silence Observed" he states that his age is fifty-three). He firstappears as a youthful Inspector in "Death at the President's Lodging" ("Seven Suspects" in the United States) in 1936. He retires from Scotland Yard at a very early age just after World War II, on marrying Judith Raven, a sculptress first encountered in "Appleby's End".

He then reappears as a Commisioner in Scotland Yard, a position rewarded by a knighthood.Later he retires to Long Dream Manor, his wife's family home in the countryside. As "Sir John Appleby", retired Commissioner of Scotland Yard, he continues to solve crimes well into the 1980s, his last appearance being in "Appleby and the Ospreys" in 1986, 50 years after his fictional debut.

Appleby also makes an appearance in the Edmund Crispin novel "Holy Disorders".

Appleby novels

*"Death At the President's Lodging" (1936) (aka "Seven Suspects")
*"Hamlet, Revenge!" (1937)
*"Lament for a Maker" (1938)
*"Stop Press" (1939) (aka "The Spider Strikes")
*"The Secret Vanguard" (1940)
*"There Came Both Mist And Snow" (1940) (aka "A Comedy of Terrors")
*"Appleby On Ararat" (1941)
*"The Daffodil Affair" (1942)
*"The Weight of the Evidence" (1943)
*"Appleby's End" (1945)
*"A Night of Errors" (1947)
*"Operation Pax" (1951) (aka "The Paper Thunderbolt")
*"A Private View" (1952) (aka "One-Man Show" and "Murder Is an Art")
*"Appleby Talking" (1954) (aka "Dead Man's Shoes")
*"Appleby Talks Again" (1956)
*"Appleby Plays Chicken" (1957) (aka "Death On a Quiet Day")
*"The Long Farewell" (1958)
*"Hare Sitting Up" (1959)
*"Silence Observed" (1961)
*"A Connoisseur's Case" (1962) (aka "The Crabtree Affair")
*"The Bloody Wood" (1966)
*"Appleby At Allington" (1968) (aka "Death By Water")
*"A Family Affair" (1969) (aka "Picture of Guilt")
*"Death At the Chase" (1970)
*"An Awkward Lie" (1971)
*"The Open House" (1972)
*"Appleby's Answer" (1973)
*"Appleby's Other Story" (1974)
*"The Appleby File" (1975)
*"The Gay Phoenix" (1976)
*"The Ampersand Papers" (1978)
*"Sheiks and Adders" (1982)
*"Appleby And Honeybath" (1983)
*"Carson's Conspiracy" (1984)
*"Appleby And the Ospreys" (1986)

In 2007, his estate transferred all of the Michael Innes copyrights and other legal and commercial rights to London-based Owatonna Media.

External links

* [http://www.owatonnamedia.com/michael_innes.html rights owner Owatonna Media]