was the pseudonym of an Oxford academic, J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994), 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 Art . The somewhat ponderous writing style and analysis of character, particularly in the early novels, is frequently Henry James ian.
The best-known of Innes's detective creations is Sir John Appleby (originally Inspector John Appleby) of Scotland Yard .
- ''Death At the President's Lodging'' (1936) (also known as ''Seven Suspects'')
- ''Hamlet, Revenge!'' (1937)
- ''Lament for a Maker'' (1938)
- ''Stop Press'' (1939) (also known as ''The Spider Strikes'')
- ''The Secret Vanguard'' (1940)
- ''There Came Both Mist And Snow'' (1940) (also known as ''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) (also known as ''The Paper Thunderbolt'')
- ''A Private View'' (1952) (also known as ''One-Man Show'' and ''Murder Is an Art'')
- ''Appleby Talking'' (1954) (also known as ''Dead Man's Shoes'')
- ''Appleby Talks Again'' (1956)
- ''Appleby Plays Chicken'' (1957) (also known as ''Death On a Quiet Day'')
- ''The Long Farewell'' (1958)
- ''Hare Sitting Up'' (1959)
- ''Silence Observed'' (1961)
- ''A Connoisseur's Case'' (1962) (also known as ''The Crabtree Affair'')
- ''The Bloody Wood'' (1966)
- ''Appleby At Allington'' (1968) (also known as ''Death By Water'')
- ''A Family Affair'' (1969) (also known as ''Picture of Guilt'')
- ''Death At the Chase'' (1970)
- ''An Awkward Lie'' (1971), ISBN 0-396-06345-4
- ''The Open House'' (1972), ISBN 0-396-06524-4
- ''Appleby's Answer'' (1973), ISBN 0-396-06744-1
- ''Appleby's Other Story'' (1974), ISBN 0-396-06715-8
- ''The Appleby File'' (1975), ISBN 0-396-07279-8
- ''The Gay Phoenix'' (1976), ISBN 0-396-07442-1
- ''The Ampersand Papers'' (1978), ISBN 0-396-07663-7
- ''Sheiks and Adders'' (1982), ISBN 0-396-08063-4
- ''Appleby And Honeybath'' (1983), ISBN 0-396-08247-5
- ''Carson's Conspiracy'' (1984), ISBN 0-396-08395-1
- ''Appleby And the Ospreys'' (1986), ISBN 0-396-08950-X
- ''What Happened At Hazelwood?'' (1946)
- ''From London Far'' (1946) (also known as ''The Unsuspected Chasm'')
- ''The Journeying Boy'' (1949)
- ''Christmas At Candleshoe'' (1953)
- ''The Man from the Sea'' (1955) (also known as ''Death By Moonlight'')
- ''Old Hall, New Hall'' (1956) (also known as ''A Question of Queens'')
- ''The New Sonia Wayward'' (1960) (also known as ''The Case of Sonia Wayward'')
- ''Money from Holme'' (1964)
- ''A Change of Heir'' (1966)
- ''The Mysterious Commission'' (1974), ISBN 0-396-07134-1
- ''Honeybath's Haven'' (1977), ISBN 0-396-07555-X
- ''Going It Alone'' (1980), ISBN 0-396-07819-2
- ''Lord Mullion's Secret'' (1981), ISBN 0-396-08005-7
His novel ''Christmas at Candleshoe'' was the basis for the 1977 film '' Candleshoe '' starring Jodie Foster , Helen Hayes and David Niven .
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