--- product_id: 120720711 title: "A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008" brand: "michael innes" price: "€ 30.52" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/120720711-a-private-view-one-man-show-and-murder-is-art store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008 **Brand:** michael innes **Price:** € 30.52 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008 by michael innes - **How much does it cost?** € 30.52 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/120720711-a-private-view-one-man-show-and-murder-is-art) ## Best For - michael innes enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted michael innes brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review 'Exciting, amusingly written–very good enjoyment it is' Read more About the Author 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, he 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. Innes's most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. His other well-known character is 'Honeybath', the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in 'The Mysterious Commission'. The last of the Innes novels, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. His work is still very highly regarded and 'Appleby's End' and 'The New Sonia Wayward' were chosen by H.R.F. Keating as being amongst the best 100 crime novels ever written. The 'Times Literary Supplement' said of him: 'A Master - he constructs a plot that twists and turns like an electric eel: it gives you shock upon shock and you cannot let go.' Read more ## Images ![A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zBWVnmKcL.jpg) ![A Private View: One Man Show and Murder is an Art (Inspector Appleby) Paperback – September 23, 2008 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31JZO3ud87L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I"m half way through and its a good one!! *by A***Y on October 3, 2015* I'm half way through and its a good one!! If you love a very very well written classic mystery, Michael Innes is for you. So refreshingin todays world of violence and psycho fear factor. If you love and intelligent reading and want a good bedtime story, this is it.This had Judith in it too which is always a treat. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Appleby Always Comes Through *by K***G on February 1, 2014* What begins as a tongue in cheek stroll through an art gallery rapidly becomes a one-man-showfor John Appleby, as he traces vicious murderers through a long night of car chases andgeneral pandemonium. And just as all seems lost, a stroke of luck! Fine tale. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Both Applebys are better *by K***R on October 17, 2013* This has both Appleby and his wife, so it is more fun than the earlier ones. 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