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Michael Innes was one of the greater writers who have ever lived. His real name was John Innes Mackintosh Stewart and he was born on September 30, 1906.He died in the year 1994.Micheal Innes took his education from the academy of Oriel College and Edinburgh located in Oxford. He did his B.A. Honours in English in the year 1928 and the nest two years he spent by visiting Austria and Germany. Michael has worked diligently on the translation of Montaigne’s Essays in the year 1929 for which he got the prestigious Fraser scholarship by Oriel.

In the year 1929, Michael joined the Leeds University. Michael Innes wrote “Death at the President’s Lodging” in just six weeks. This was an enthralling and exclusive books written by Michael Innes and was published in the year 1936.Although he later wrote under his name, but as far as his work is concerned he is better known by his pseudonym, Innes.

The contribution made by Michael Innes is incredible in the world of English Literature as he is the greatest classic crime fiction writers giving 45 novels in his career of 50 years.

It is very surprising to know that Michael Innes had a career in police too. Michael married Judith and he always wanted to become a farmer after his retirement. At this time of his career, Michael wrote a number of stand-alone mysteries and we also see the appearance of Appleby as the assistant commissioner of police at none other than the famous Scotland Yard.

Death at the President’s lodging

This book is based on the murder of the president. An inspector by the name of Appleby is called at St. Anthony’s College. The president has been murdered in his lodging in this college. Everybody is taken by surprise when they come to know that the President was killed by only those people who had the opportunity to visit the most popular place the Orchard ground. This Orchard ground is locked at night and the keys for this ground are only with the fellows of the college.

Hamlet, Revenge!

This book is about the murder of Lord Chancellor of England. The murder takes place at the climax of a presentation of Hamlet where the character of Polonius is very important. The names of some of the very popular names in the country are mentioned by inspector Appleby which unearths the grave suspicion.

Appleby’s End

This story is based on the one of the inspectors who works in a detective agency. Applebys End is a popular station in Scotland Yard where the said inspector happens to get down from the train. got down from the train. This is not the only thing which comes as a coincidence and the event which takes place later are all related to stories by the famous Victorian novelist Ranulph Raven. There are many interesting things in this story like the marble effigies taking the place of animals, people getting the tombstones which are telling them that they would die.

The Daffodil Affair

This story is based on the horse by the name of Daffodil. This horse belongs to inspector Appleby’s aunt who gets highly disappointed when she comes to know that her horse is missing from her stable which is located in Harrogate. This horse is gifted and has very good numerical skills. Then there is an instance in the story where a young girl is enticed and taken to an undisclosed isle by a gentleman. In addition, there is also an episode where a haunted house in Bloomsbury goes missing due to which the policemen are in a state of shock and they start searching for a connection. In the end, the Appleby and Hudspeth are able to know the whereabouts of Daffodil and Lucy and we found them indulged in an exciting project which leads them to a jungle in South America.

Writing style of Michael Innes

Michael Innes had his own style of writing. His writing was colorful as well as urbane which is not usual as far as crime fictions concerned. His writing style also involved heavy dialogues along with verbal exchanges and characters which were well rounded. The usual whodunit plot was never a part of the writing style of Michael Innes. As far as the creation of the fresh and non-stereotyped character was concerned Michael got success with the writing of his famous book “Appleby” which also made him capable of making a niche for himself in the detective fiction work.

Another great work of Michael Innes is “Stop Press” which was published in 1939.This book is interesting as the main character of the story is a writer who has written 37 books about a good guy known as The Spider who becomes a criminal. Eventually, the author is feeling sick of his own work and wants to kill himself. However, he cannot do so as there are many people who depend on his creation. The sister of Appleby, Patricia is a popular character in this story.
Around the World War II and afterward the Cold War Innes wrote many novels which had secret formulae, spies and long chases around the areas of Scotland and Ireland. As far as the knowledge of art is concerned Michael Innes has able to prove it in his Honey bath novels. Appleby is one of the main characters used by Michael Innes as no other character could replace him.

After this, we have “Christmas at Candle shoe” written by Michael Innes. In this story, Disney is showing buying the Candle shoe as a vehicle for Jodie Foster. The boy hero in this story is changed to a girl.

Thus we see that Michael Innes is a fantastic and extraordinary writer in the history of crime fiction. He always won the heart of his fans with the ambiance, characters and the deep suspicion in his stories. The majority of the books written by Michael Innes is in a class of their own and involves you from the inner core of your heart. You actually feel that you are one of the characters as the message conveyed by Michael Innes is very deep. If you really want to go for crime fictions then Michael Innes is the ideal choice.

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