Appleby Talking Explained

Appleby Talking
Author:	Michael Innes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Sir John Appleby
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Gollancz Dodd, Mead (US)
Release Date:	1954
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	A Private View

Appleby Talking is a collection of detective short stories by the British writer Michael Innes published in 1954. John Appleby, a Golden Age Scotland Yard detective, features in all twenty three stories.^[1] The series of novels had run since Death at the President's Lodging in 1936, but this was the first time shorter stories about Appleby's cases had been collected in a single volume.^[2] It was followed by a second collection Appleby Talks Again in 1956. It was published in the United States under the alternative title Dead Man's Shoes.

Stories

• Appleby's First Case
• Pokerwork
• The Spendlove Papers
• The Furies
• Eye Witness
• The Bandertree Case
• The Key
• The Flight of Patroclus
• The Clock-Face Case
• Miss Geach
• Tragedy of a Handkerchief
• The Cave of Belarius
• A Nice Cup of Tea
• The Sands of Thyme
• The X-Plan
• Lesson in Anatomy
• Imperious Caesar
• The Clancarron Ball
• A Dog's Life
• A Derby Horse
• William the Conqueror
• Dead Man's Shoes
• The Lion and the Unicorn

Bibliography

• Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
• Scheper, George L. Michael Innes. Ungar, 1986.

Notes and References

1. Scheper p.210
2. Reilly p.395