The Appleby File: Detective Stories by Innes, Michael - 1975

Dodd Mead, 1976. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ulverscroft New York, 1975. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Lib Hardcover Cover and DJ is torn at the top of spine, underlined and written in, some water damage but not much, still readable.

Dodd, Mead. Hardcover. Used - Good/Very Good. Boards have shelf wear Dust jacket has shelf wear. Dust jacket is protected by mylar Name of previous owner inside cover.

Dodd, Mead, 1976-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9000 8.1000 5.5000. First edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976. First U. S. edition. Fifteen John Appleby short stories. Gently bumped, spine slightly cocked, top of the text block foxed. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn with small chips and tears, flaps foxed, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The dustjacket shows light edgewear. The front endpage has been removed.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1976. 1st Am. ed.. hardcover. 8vo .

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1976. 1st US edition. Previous owner's label at front endpaper, else near Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Fifteen short stories featuring Sir John Appleby. There are fifteen stories in this compelling collection, including: Poltergeist - when Appleby's wife tells him that her aunt is experiencing trouble with a Poltergeist, he is amused but dismissive, until he discovers that several priceless artefacts have been smashed as a result; A Question of Confidence - when Bobby Appleby's friend, Brian Button, is caught up in a scandalous murder in Oxford, Bobby's famous detective father is their first port of call; The Ascham - an abandoned car on a narrow lane intrigues Appleby and his wife, but even more intriguing is the medieval castle they stumble upon. 207 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Gollancz, 1975. 207 pp, 8vo (8" H). "(A) brilliant collection of Michael Innes short stories about the varied adventures of his great detective, Sir John Appleby, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (and, later, retired). Appleby has to cope with many diabolically ingenious modes of crime: a faked poltergeist; an exploding antique; a balloon to remove a weapon; an arrow to obliterate a trail. Many of the clues that lead to solutions are equally remarkable: a shubunkin in a pocket; the overpainting of a portrait; photocopies that have stuck together; a broken wine-glass; a coat worn inside-out; a London taxi-cab on the Simplon Pass. And the plots involve elaborate double bluffs: suicides designed to look like murders; X disguised as Y disguised as X; and in 'The Memorial Service' the tangle of impersonation develops into a triple - or is it a quadruple? - bluff." Contents: The Appleby File: The Ascham; Poltergeist; The Fishermen; The Conversation Piece; Death By… Read More

Paperback. Good.