| Silence Observed | |
| Author: | Michael Innes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sir John Appleby |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Gollancz Dodd, Mead (US) |
| Release Date: | 1961 |
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| Preceded By: | Hare Sitting Up |
| Followed By: | A Connoisseur's Case |
Silence Observed is a 1961 detective novel by the British writer Michael Innes.[1] [2] It is the seventeenth entry in his series featuring Sir John Appleby, now an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard.[3] It received a positive review from Anthony Lejeune in the Times Literary Supplement.