Sir John Appleby
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Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories.
Appleby had perhaps the longest career of any of the great detectives. He was born in 1907 or 1908 (in Silence Observed he states that his age is fifty-three). He first appears as a youthful Inspector in Death at the President's Lodging (Seven Suspects in the United States) in 1936. He retires from Scotland Yard at a very early age just after World War II, on marrying Judith Raven, a sculptress first encountered in Appleby's End.
He then reappears as a Commisioner in Scotland Yard, a position rewarded by a knighthood. Later he retires to Long Dream Manor, his wife's family home in the countryside. As "Sir John Appleby", retired Commissioner of Scotland Yard, he continues to solve crimes well into the 1980s, his last appearance being in Appleby and the Ospreys in 1986, 50 years after his fictional debut.
Appleby also makes an appearance in the Edmund Crispin novel Holy Disorders.
[edit] Appleby novels
- Death At the President's Lodging (1936) (aka Seven Suspects)
- Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
- Lament for a Maker (1938)
- Stop Press (1939) (aka The Spider Strikes)
- The Secret Vanguard (1940)
- There Came Both Mist And Snow (1940) (aka 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) (aka The Paper Thunderbolt)
- A Private View (1952) (aka One-Man Show and Murder Is an Art)
- Appleby Talking (1954) (aka Dead Man's Shoes)
- Appleby Talks Again (1956)
- Appleby Plays Chicken (1957) (aka Death On a Quiet Day)
- The Long Farewell (1958)
- Hare Sitting Up (1959)
- Silence Observed (1961)
- A Connoisseur's Case (1962) (aka The Crabtree Affair)
- The Bloody Wood (1966)
- Appleby At Allington (1968) (aka Death By Water)
- A Family Affair (1969) (aka Picture of Guilt)
- Death At the Chase (1970)
- An Awkward Lie (1971)
- The Open House (1972)
- Appleby's Answer (1973)
- Appleby's Other Story (1974)
- The Appleby File (1975)
- The Gay Phoenix (1976)
- The Ampersand Papers (1978)
- Sheiks and Adders (1982)
- Appleby And Honeybath (1983)
- Carson's Conspiracy (1984)
- Appleby And the Ospreys (1986)
In 2007, his estate transferred all of the Michael Innes copyrights and other legal and commercial rights to London-based Owatonna Media.
