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The Daffodil Affair

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
230 Seiten
Englisch
Bloodhound Bookserschienen am09.04.2024
A Scotland Yard detective probes a string of strange disappearances and paranormal phenomena in this classic British mystery adventure.
Insp. John Appleby has his hands full. It begins when his aunt's horse, Daffodil, disappears from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Appleby's colleague, Superintendent Hudspith, is searching for a missing young woman by the name of Lucy Rideout. But the most bizarre case is the vanishing of a supposedly haunted house in Bloomsbury.
Working together, the puzzled policemen soon find the cases are connected. But what exactly is going on? The answer to that question lies with a madman in the Amazonian jungle . . .
Praise for Michael Innes and Inspector Appleby
"Innes is in a class by himself among detective story writers." --The Times Literary Supplement
"As farfetched and literary as Sayers." --Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
"A first-rate piece of work, intelligent, well-written, elaborate and exciting. . . . Highly recommended." --The Spectator on Hamlet, Revenge!mehr

Produkt

KlappentextA Scotland Yard detective probes a string of strange disappearances and paranormal phenomena in this classic British mystery adventure.
Insp. John Appleby has his hands full. It begins when his aunt's horse, Daffodil, disappears from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Appleby's colleague, Superintendent Hudspith, is searching for a missing young woman by the name of Lucy Rideout. But the most bizarre case is the vanishing of a supposedly haunted house in Bloomsbury.
Working together, the puzzled policemen soon find the cases are connected. But what exactly is going on? The answer to that question lies with a madman in the Amazonian jungle . . .
Praise for Michael Innes and Inspector Appleby
"Innes is in a class by himself among detective story writers." --The Times Literary Supplement
"As farfetched and literary as Sayers." --Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
"A first-rate piece of work, intelligent, well-written, elaborate and exciting. . . . Highly recommended." --The Spectator on Hamlet, Revenge!
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5040-9243-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum09.04.2024
Seiten230 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 140 mm, Höhe 216 mm, Dicke 13 mm
Gewicht295 g
Artikel-Nr.14143580
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GenreKrimi/Spannung TB

Autor

Michael Innes (1906-1994) was the pseudonym of John Innes MacKintosh "J.I.M." Stewart. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotlandeducated at Oxford, and taught English at universities in the UK and Australia. Writing as J.I.M. Stewart he published a number of scholarly works, mainly critical studies of authors, including Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, as well as more than twenty works of fiction and a memoir. As Michael Innes, he published numerous mystery novels and short story collections, most featuring the Scotland Yard detective Inspector John Appleby.