  Pseudonym of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart. He was born in Edinburgh. Although he had a successful academic and literary career under his own name, he is more widely known as Michael Innes, the pseudonym under which he wrote forty-five crime novels and numerous short stories. He is the creator of 'John Appleby', later Sir John, a Scotland Yard detective, who appears in most of his novels. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'John Appleby' Novels | |
| 1) Death at the President's Lodging (US Title: Seven Suspects [1937]) | 1936 |
| 2) Hamlet, Revenge! | 1937 |
| 3) Lament for a Maker | 1938 |
| 4) Stop Press (US Title: The Spider Strikes [1939]) | 1939 |
| 5) There Came Both Mist and Snow (US Title: A Comedy of Terrors [1940]) | 1940 |
| 6) The Secret Vanguard | 1940 |
| 7) Appleby on Ararat | 1941 |
| 8) The Daffodil Affair | 1942 |
| 9) The Weight of the Evidence | 1943 |
| 10) Appleby's End | 1945 |
| 11) A Night of Errors | 1948 |
| 12) Operation Pax (US Title: The Paper Thunderbolt [1951]) | 1951 |
| 13) A Private View (US Title: One-Man Show [1952]) (Also published as: Murder Is an Art [1959]) | 1952 |
| 14) Appleby Talking (US Title: Dead Man's Shoes [1954]) (short stories) | 1954 |
| 15) Appleby Plays Chicken (US Title: Death on a Quiet Day [1957]) | 1956 |
| 16) Appleby Talks Again (short stories) | 1956 |
| 17) The Long Farewell | 1958 |
| 18) Hare Sitting Up | 1959 |
| 19) Silence Observed | 1961 |
| 20) A Connoisseur's Case (US Title: The Crabtree Affair [1962]) | 1962 |
| 21) The Bloody Wood | 1966 |
| 22) Appleby at Allington (US Title: Death by Water [1968]) | 1968 |
| 23) A Family Affair (US Title: Picture of Guilt [1969]) | 1969 |
| 24) Death at the Chase | 1970 |
| 25) An Awkward Lie | 1971 |
| 26) The Open House | 1972 |
| 27) Appleby's Answer | 1973 |
| 28) Appleby's Other Story | 1974 |
| 29) The Appleby File (short stories) | 1975 |
| 30) The "Gay Phoenix" | 1976 |
| 31) The Ampersand Papers | 1978 |
| 32) Sheiks and Adders | 1982 |
| 33) Appleby and Honeybath | 1983 |
| 34) Carson's Conspiracy | 1984 |
| 35) Appleby and the Ospreys | 1986 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) From London Far (US Title: The Unexpected Chasm [1946]) | 1946 |
| 2) What Happened at Hazelwood | 1946 |
| 3) The Journeying Boy (US Title: The Case of the Journeying Boy [1949]) | 1949 |
| 4) Christmas at Candleshoe (Also published as: Candleshoe [1978]) | 1953 |
| 5) The Man from the Sea (Also published as: Death by Moonlight [1957]) | 1955 |
| 6) Old Hall, New Hall (US Title: A Question of Queens [1956]) | 1956 |
| 7) The New Sonia Wayward (US Title: The Case of Sonia Wayward [1960]) | 1960 |
| 8) Money from Holme | 1964 |
| 9) A Change of Heir | 1966 |
| 10) The Mysterious Commission | 1974 |
| 11) Honeybath's Haven | 1977 |
| 12) Going It Alone | 1980 |
| 13) Lord Mullion's Secret | 1981 |
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