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Appleby Talks
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November 15, 2024
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December 6, 2024
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These short stories are next in the Appleby series.

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Appleby Talking is Appleby talking the whole time about his cases, some in the course of his work, some in unexpected encounters with characters bent on crime. Though most of them are too short, all are entertaining, with those ridiculous names and interesting motives.Lessons in Anatomy and Dead Man's Shoes are particularly good. ...more
Leslie
Feb 07, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This book is a collection of short stories, all featuring Appleby relating one of his cases to friends (usually the Vicar and the Doctor). Interestingly many of them do not feature murder. They do all share that sense of the slightly bizarre or fantastic for which Innes has such a flair :)

It has been several years since I last read any of the Appleby books - I had finished all the ones I own and was finding the later books in the series increasingly difficult to get from the library. So when I s
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