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title: "A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008"
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# A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008

**Brand:** michael innes
**Price:** 147 Lei
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- **What is this?** A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008 by michael innes
- **How much does it cost?** 147 Lei with free shipping
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			        		&apos;Exciting, amusingly written&#x2013;very good enjoyment it is&apos;
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city&apos;s Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer&apos;s scholar. After graduation, he went to Vienna to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio&apos;s translation of &apos;Montaigne&apos;, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, &apos;Death at the President&apos;s Lodging&apos;. With his second, &apos;Hamlet Revenge&apos;, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, he returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen&apos;s University, Belfast, where in 1949 he wrote the &apos;Journeying Boy&apos;, a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. Innes&apos;s most famous character is &apos;John Appleby&apos;, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. His other well-known character is &apos;Honeybath&apos;, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in &apos;The Mysterious Commission&apos;. The last of the Innes novels, &apos;Appleby and the Ospreys&apos;, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. His work is still very highly regarded and &apos;Appleby&apos;s End&apos; and &apos;The New Sonia Wayward&apos; were chosen by H.R.F. Keating as being amongst the best 100 crime novels ever written. The &apos;Times Literary Supplement&apos; said of him: &apos;A Master - he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go.&apos;
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I"m half way through and its a good one!!
        
*by A***Y on October 3, 2015*

I'm half way through and its a good one!!  If you love a very very well written classic mystery, Michael Innes is for you. So refreshingin todays world of violence and psycho fear factor.  If you love and intelligent reading and want a good bedtime story, this is it.This had Judith in it too which is always a treat.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Appleby Always Comes Through
        
*by K***G on February 1, 2014*

What begins as a tongue in cheek stroll through an art gallery rapidly becomes a one-man-showfor John Appleby, as he traces vicious murderers through a long night of car chases andgeneral pandemonium.  And just as all seems lost,  a stroke of luck!  Fine tale.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Both Applebys are better
        
*by K***R on October 17, 2013*

This has both Appleby and his wife, so it is more fun than the earlier ones. Read it and find out for yourself.
  

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