To avoid some of the rigours of taxation, Gilbert Averell lives for part of each year in France - but he misses his native country. So when his look-alike friend, Georges, suggests they swap passports for a short while, Gilbert jumps at the chance. However, after a number of incidents involving Gilbert's sister and nephew, it becomes all too apparent that Georges' offer was not made out of simple friendship. Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a ...
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To avoid some of the rigours of taxation, Gilbert Averell lives for part of each year in France - but he misses his native country. So when his look-alike friend, Georges, suggests they swap passports for a short while, Gilbert jumps at the chance. However, after a number of incidents involving Gilbert's sister and nephew, it becomes all too apparent that Georges' offer was not made out of simple friendship. Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholar. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, Death at the President's Lodging . With his second, Hamlet Revenge , Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote The Journeying Boy , a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. His most famous character is John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in The Mysterious Commission . The last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of all books, please just ask! British Book Club Edition. Published in 1980. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Minor wear to spine ends and edges of jacket. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Price clipped. First edition first printing of this stand alone thriller. Gift inscription on the first free end page. Price clipped otherwise in near fine / near fine condition. 192 p. Audience: General/trade.
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