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Michael Innes

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 30, 1906

Died

November 12, 1994

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Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs

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Michael Innes was the pseudonym of John Innes MacKintosh (J.I.M.) Stewart (J.I.M. Stewart).

He was born in Edinburgh, and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford. He was Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 - 1935, and spent the succeeding ten years as Jury Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1949, to become a Lecturer at the Queen's University of Belfast. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford, becoming a Professor by the time of his retirement in 1973.

As J.I.M. Stewart he published a number of works of non-fiction, mainly critical studies of authors, including Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, as well as about ...more

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	Death at the President's Lodging (Sir John Appleby, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 2,064 ratings — published 1936 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lament for a Maker (Sir John Appleby, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 1,737 ratings — published 1938 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hamlet, Revenge! (Sir John Appleby, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — published 1937 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appleby's End (Sir John Appleby, #10) 3.87 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1945 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Came Both Mist And Snow (Sir John Appleby, #6) 3.43 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1940 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Farewell (Sir John Appleby, #17) 3.72 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1958 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Vanguard (Sir John Appleby, #5) 3.64 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1940 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Private View (Sir John Appleby, #13) 3.70 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1952 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death on a Quiet Day (Sir John Appleby, #16) 3.82 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1957 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daffodil Affair (Sir John Appleby, #8) 3.24 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1942 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?”
― Michael Innes, The Weight Of The Evidence

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“In fact this bad baronet died true to the conditions of his kind--mysteriously in his library, at midnight, while a great deal of snow was falling.”
― Michael Innes, What Happened At Hazlewood

tags: mystery-novels, sarcastic-humor

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“Down the five ill-disposed wings of Nesfield University, vaulted, machine-carved, echoing and damp, surged conflicting columns of adolescent humanity, a rout of jostling automotive sponges hurried from pool to pool of a knowledge codified, timetabled and approved.”
― Michael Innes, The Weight Of The Evidence

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The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

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The Art School Murders: A Golden Age Mystery by Moray Dalton

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Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

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