Michael Innes

Michael Innes

Michael Innes is a pen name for John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (b. 1906, d. 12 November 1994).

Stewart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford. Subsequently, he taught English at numerous universites around the world; he was a lecturer in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 to 1935, Jury Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, South Australia from 1935 to 1945, and a lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast from 1946 to 1948. From 1949 until retirement in 1973, he was a Student (that is, a Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.

Title	US Title	Publisher	Year	Other Information
Death at the President's Lodging	Seven Suspects	London: Gollancz	1936	Inspector John Appleby
Hamlet, Revenge!		London: Gollancz	1937	Inspector John Appleby
Lament for a Maker		London: Gollancz	1938	Inspector John Appleby
Stop Press		London: Gollancz	1939
There Came Both Mist and Snow		London: Gollancz	1940
The Secret Vanguard		London: Gollancz	1940	Inspector John Appleby
Appleby on Ararat		London: Gollancz	1941	Inspector John Appleby
The Daffodil Affair	Picture of Guilt	London: Gollancz	1942	Inspector John Appleby
The Weight of the Evidence		London: Gollancz	1944	Inspector John Appleby
Appleby's End		London: Gollancz	1945	Inspector John Appleby
From London Far		London: Gollancz	1946
What Happened at Hazelwood?		London: Gollancz	1946
A Night of Errors		London: Gollancz	1948
The Journeying Boy	The Case of the Journeying Boy	London: Gollancz	1949
Operation Pax	The Paper Thunderbolt	London: Gollancz	1951	Inspector John Appleby
A Private View	One Man Show	London: Gollancz	1952	Inspector John Appleby
Christmas at Candleshoe	Candleshoe	London: Gollancz	1953
Appleby Talking	Dead Man's Shoes	London: Gollancz	1954
The Man From the Sea		London: Gollancz	1955
Old Hall, New Hall		London: Gollancz	1956
Appleby Plays Chicken	Death on a Quiet Day	London: Gollancz	1956	Inspector John Appleby
The Long Farewell		London: Gollancz	1958	Inspector John Appleby
Hare Sitting Up		London: Gollancz	1959	Inspector John Appleby
The New Sonya Wayward	The Case of Sonia Wayward	London: Gollancz	1960
Silence Observed		London: Gollancz	1961
A Connoisseur's Case	The Crabtree Affair	London: Gollancz	1962	Inspector John Appleby
Money From Holme		London: Gollancz	1964
The Bloody Wood		London: Gollancz	1966
A Change of Heir		London: Gollancz	1966
Appleby at Allington	Death by Water	London: Gollancz	1968	Inspector John Appleby
A Family Affair		London: Gollancz	1969
Death at the Chase		London: Gollancz	1970
An Awkward Lie		London: Gollancz	1971	Inspector John Appleby
The Open House		London: Gollancz	1972
Appleby's Answer		London: Gollancz	1973	Inspector John Appleby
Appleby's Other Story		London: Gollancz	1974
The Mysterious Commission		London: Gollancz	1974
The Gay Phoenix		London: Gollancz	1976
Honeybath's Haven		London: Gollancz	1977	Charles Honeybath
The Ampersand Papers		London: Gollancz	1978	Inspector John Appleby
Going it Alone		London: Gollancz	1980
Lord Mullion's Secret		London: Gollancz	1981	Charles Honeybath
Sheiks and Adders		London: Gollancz	1982	Inspector John Appleby
Appleby and Honeybath		London: Gollancz	1983	Inspector John Appleby
Carson's Conspiracy		London: Gollancz	1984
Appleby and the Ospreys		London: Gollancz	1986	Inspector John Appleby

Michael Innes Omnibus Editions

In the 1980s, Penguin Books published a series of Michael Innes Omnibus editions in paperback, each containing three full length Innes novels. The Michael Innes Omnibus (ISBN 0140060596) included: Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet Revenge!, and The Daffodil Affair. The Second Michael Innes Omnibus (0140062629) included Journeying Boy, The Man From the Sea, and Operation Pax.

Books about Michael Innes and his works

There are few books published about Michael Innes and his works. Two are:
Michael Innes, George L. Scheper, New York: Ungar, 1986, ISBN 0804428069 | [abe]
Myself and Michael Innes: a memoir, J. I. M. Stewart, London: Gollancz, 1987, ISBN 0575041048 | [abe]