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Encyclopedia > Michael Innes

Michael Innes was the pseudonym of an Oxford academic, J. I. M. Stewart (19061994), under which name he wrote about forty crime novels between 1936 and 1986. Innes's detective novels are playfully 'highbrow,' rich in allusions to English literature and to Renaissance. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906–1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


Both the plots of his novels and the motivations of their characters are influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud [] (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, based on his theory that human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire; that the unconscious often represses wishes (generally of a... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ...


The best-known of Innes' detective creations is Sir John Appleby (originally Inspector John Appleby) of Scotland Yard. Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories. ... New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ...

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Inspector 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)

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Other novels

  • What Happened At Hazelwood? (1946)
  • From London Far (1946) (aka The Unsuspected Chasm)
  • The Journeying Boy (1949)
  • Christmas At Candleshoe (1953)
  • The Man from the Sea (1955) (aka Death By Moonlight)
  • Old Hall, New Hall (1956) (aka A Question of Queens)
  • The New Sonia Wayward (1960) (aka The Case of Sonia Wayward)
  • Money from Holme (1964)
  • A Change of Heir (1966)
  • The Mysterious Commission (1974)
  • Honeybath's Haven (1977)
  • Going It Alone (1980)
  • Lord Mullion's Secret (1981)

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External link

  • Appraisal of each of Innes's books

  Results from FactBites:
 
Michael Innes Biography - Information About (405 words)
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, who was born on 30 September 1906 and died in 1994, was educated at Edinburgh Academy and later at Oriel College, Oxford.
Innes decamped for Australia in 1935 and a Professorship in English at the University of Adelaide where he remained until 1945.
Innes succeeded, with Appleby, in creating a fresh, new and non-stereotypical character which secures his place as an important author in the detective fiction genre.
Michael Innes (966 words)
Michael Innes wrote his first mystery in 1936, which puts him within the timeframe of the later Golden Age of the classic detective story.
Innes certainly achieved a few, but for the most part the purely detective element of his stories is not their chief attraction.
Innes had a command of language and a sense of style that put him much closer to Dickens than to Christie.
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