- Hardcover: 254 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (February 1971)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0837133777
- ISBN-13: 978-0837133775
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Book Description
This crime story with Scotland Yard's John Appleby is set on a desert island in the Pacific ocean. Michael Innes, who also wrote under his own name, J.I.M.Stewart, and has published numerous novels and short stories featuring John Appleby.
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About the Author
Born in Edinburgh , John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year. His first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, got him a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In later years he taught at the universities of Adelaide, Belfast and Oxford. Under his pseudonym, Michael Innes, he wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories. His most famous character is Inspector 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 The Mysterious Commission, in 1975. Stewart's last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, appeared in 1986.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Shipwrecked Sleuth,
This review is from: Appleby on Ararat (Paperback)
A very strange and silly book that yet succeeds in being entertaining, despite (or because of?) that very quality. The plot is as exotic and as lush as the setting: Appleby and a small group of Commonwealthers are shipwrecked on a Pacific island inhabited by sinister archaeologists, German spies and transvestites. Although there are the usual Innesian linguistic blocks (e.g., at one point the heroine is described as "being as yet unaware of being obscurely conscious of offence"), the book is remarkably well-written, even if steeped overmuch in Freud.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming, witty, intelligent... Innes rules!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Appleby on Ararat (Hardcover)
(I save 10's for Dostoyevsky.)
This one features George, my favorite aristocratic dog, as well as a young debonair Appleby in the pre-Judith days. The story starts out as a Robinson Crusoe shipwreck adventure (featuring a proper English spinster who goes native), turns into an offbeat drawing room comedy (with an entire cast of eccentric characters including the wonderful George), and ends up a World War II action-suspense thriller (with full sensurround fire and explosions)! Really, it does! Along the way Innes' dry, hilarious prose drops little precious gems of insight and percipience. If you read Innes with your dictionary handy, you are guaranteed several arcane and ultra-cool additions to your vocabulary in every book. He's a sort of cross between Henry Fielding and Douglas Adams... kooky and hip and very, very well educated. If he is still alive, he is over eighty... and if I met him I would just swoon! 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Shipwrecked Sleuth,
By hacklehorn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Appleby on Ararat (Paperback)
A very strange and silly book that yet succeeds in being entertaining, despite (or because of?) that very quality. The plot is as exotic and as lush as the setting: Appleby and a small group of Commonwealthers are shipwrecked on a Pacific island inhabited by sinister archaeologists, German spies and transvestites. Although there are the usual Innesian linguistic blocks (e.g., at one point the heroine is described as "being as yet unaware of being obscurely conscious of offence"), the book is remarkably well-written, even if steeped overmuch in Freud.
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