Michael Innes was the pseudonym of John Innes MacKintosh (J.I.M.) Stewart (J.I.M. Stewart). He was born in Edinburgh, and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford. He was Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds from 1930 - 1935, and spent the succeeding ten years as Jury Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1949, to become a Lecturer at the Queen's University of Belfast. In 1949 he became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford, becoming a Professor by the time of his retirement in 1973. As J.I.M. Stewart he published a number of works of non-fiction, mainly critical studies of authors, including Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, as well as about twenty works of fiction and a memoir, 'Myself and Michael Innes'. As Michael Innes, he published numerous mystery novels and short story collections, most featuring the Scotland Yard detective John Appleby.
Series
Books
Lord Mullion's Secret (3)
1981
Appleby's End
1945
Hare Sitting Up
1959
The Appleby File
1976
Hamlet, Revenge!
1937
Going It Alone
1980
Appleby Talks Again
1956
Death At The Chase
1970
Carson's Conspiracy
1984
Death at the President's Lodging
1936
Appleby Talking
1954
Sheiks And Adders
1982
The Man from the Sea
1955
Old Hall, New Hall
1956
Christmas at Candleshoe
1953
The Weight Of The Evidence
1943
The Bloody Wood
1966
The Crabtree Affair
1962
The Long Farewell
1958
From London Far
1946
Appleby On Ararat
1941
Who Killed Father Christmas?
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
2023
The Gay Phoenix
1976
Honeybath's Haven
1977
Appleby And The Ospreys
1987
Blood on the Tracks
Railway Mysteries
2018
Stop Press
1939
An Awkward Lie
1971
Death on a Quiet Day
1957
Appleby Talks about Crime
2010
The Secret Vanguard
1940
10 relatos de detectives
1996
A Night Of Errors
1948
Operation Pax
1951
There Came Both Mist And Snow
1940
The Open House
1972
A Change Of Heir
1984
Murder Under the Sun
Classic Mysteries for Summer
2024
The Daffodil Affair
1942
The New Sonia Wayward
1960
Appleby's Other Story
1974
A Private View
1952
Appleby and Honeybath
1983
Silence Observed
1961
What Happened At Hazlewood
1946
A Family Affair
1969
The Case of the Journeying Boy
1949
Lament for a Maker
1938
The Mysterious Commission (1)
1974
Appleby's Answer
1973
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
The Ampersand Papers
1978
Money from Holme
1964
Appleby At Allington
1968
