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Ex-Library. Publisher: Victor Gollancz . Published: 1970. Comments: Red cloth, very good. Dust jacket, very good, slightly marked to edges, taped to boards, in clear protective cover. Price unclipped. Library discarded stamp and marks to front endpapers. Pages good+, slightly marked with library stamps etc. to title verso. Binding sound and tight.
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The pace is brisk, the adventures exciting and excitingly told, and above all he keeps to the very end the interesting ambiguity of the man from the sea.--New Statesman
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Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city'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's scholar. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, 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, 'Death at the President's Lodging'. With his second, 'Hamlet Revenge', Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the 'Journeying Boy', 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. His most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is 'Honeybath', the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in 'The Mysterious Commission'. The last novel, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. '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.' - Times Literary Supplement.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0575003952
- ISBN 13 9780575003958
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
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ISBN 10: 0575003952
ISBN 13: 9780575003958
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1955 this is a second impression of 1970. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, spine slightly darkened, not price clipped (25s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 223pp. Cranston was preoccupied with his mistress when the man came out of the sea. The man was exhausted and almost naked and he was being chased. Cranston helped him, but subsequent events often made him wish that he hadn't. For it messed up his love affair and nearly finished his own life. John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-94), was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction, featuring his Detective Inspector John Appleby, published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other identity, and vice versa. Quite scarce. Seller Inventory # 009833
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