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Famous writer, Richard Eliot, has written numerous detective novels, featuring 'The Spider', a daring, clever criminal in earlier books, and an equally canny private investigator in later ones. But when he comes to life - first to burgle an odd neighbour, then to harass the Eliot family, and finally to attend his own 'birthday party' - Inspector John Appleby is sent to investigate.
About the Author
Born in Edinburgh , John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was educated at Oriel College, Oxford.
After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year.
His first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, got him a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In later years he taught at the universities of Adelaide, Belfast and Oxford.
Under his pseudonym, Michael Innes, he wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories. His most famous character is Inspector John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. His other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in The Mysterious Commission, in 1975. Stewart's last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, appeared in 1986.
Stop Press,Michael Innes,House of Stratus,1842327569,Fiction,Fiction - Mystery/ Detective,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery/Suspense,Crime & mystery
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