Stop Press by Michael Innes

Stop Press by Michael Innes

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 onesBut 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

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 InnesInnes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholarAfter 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 LeedsIn 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelistThe 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 LodgingWith his second, Hamlet Revenge, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writerAfter the end of World War I, 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 settingHe then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973His most famous character is John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this dayInnes's other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in The Mysterious CommissionThe last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994'A master--he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go'

Innes, Michael: - Michael Innes is the pseudonym of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 - 12 November 1994). Innes was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under his pseudonym. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other identity, and vice versa. Innes published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections in his lifetime, but is best known for creating Detective Inspector Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, who eventually through the course of the later novels becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He attended Edinburgh Academy, and later studied English literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Having lectured in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, he would then become Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Once he returned to the United Kingdom he lectured at Queens, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. By the time of his retirement in 1973, he was a professor of the university. He died in Coulsdon.

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ISBN 13	9781842327562
ISBN 10	1842327569
Title	Stop Press
Author	Michael Innes
Series	Inspector Appleby
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	House of Stratus
Year published	2008-09-23
Number of pages	434
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