Eight Inspector Appleby Mysteries (re-up) – Michael Innes Free Audiobook

Written by Michael Innes
Read by Stephen Hogan, Matt Addis, Raymond Adamson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

This is a re-up of the older martin88 torrent.

My thanks to the original uploader (peterg23?).

All from Electronic Download (AUD). 48 kbps / 44 kHz Mono, Fraunhofer CBR MP3.

(Many thanks to Phyl for these Audible transcriptions.)

Legendary character Inspector John Appleby of Scotland Yard inspired a lasting vogue for donnish detective fiction. Innes’s detective novels are playfully highbrow and rich in allusions to English literature and to Renaissance art. Between 1936 and 1986, J.I.M Stewart , writing under the pseudonym of Michael Innes , published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections.

1936. *Death At the President’s Lodging* aka Seven Suspects. [9 hrs 5 mins] Read by Stephen Hogan .
Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony’s College Oxford, where the president has been murdered in his lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity – because the President’s Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys…

1937. *Hamlet, Revenge! * [11 hrs 2 mins] Read by Matt Addis .
At Seamnum Court, seat of the Duke of Horton, The Lord Chancellor of England is murdered at the climax of a private presentation of Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius. Inspector Appleby pursues some of the most famous names in the country, unearthing dreadful suspicion…

1940. *The Secret Vanguard* [6 hrs 31 mins]. Read by Matt Addis.
In 1939 Scotland, two people stumble onto a Nazi plot to track down and kidnap a British scientist. Part of the story takes place on a train heading up into the Scottish Highlands. The story actually begins in England, with the murder, in a gazebo, of the harmless English poet, Mr. Philip Ploss. An event that brings Scotland Yard’s Inspector John Appleby into the case. “Ploss,” said John Appleby deliberately. “Philip Ploss, the Cow-and- Gate-poet. Who would want, now, to shoot a quiet fellow like that?” But poetry does, indeed, have lots to do with a nest of Nazi spies operating in Great Britain….

1942. *The Daffodil Affair* [7 hrs 47 mins] Read by Matt Addis .
Inspector Appleby’s aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil – a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills – goes missing from her stable I Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of Lucy Rideout, an enigmatic young girl has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman. And when a house in Bloomsbury, supposedly haunted, also goes missing, the baffled policemen search for a connection. As Appleby and Hudspith trace Daffodil and Lucy, the fragments begin to come together and an extravagant project is uncovered, leading them to the South American jungle!

1943. *The Weight of the Evidence* [8 hrs 36 mins] Read by Matt Addis .
Meteorites fall from the sky but seldom onto the heads of science dons in redbrick universities; yet this is what happens to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. Inspector Appleby soon discovers that the meteorite was not fresh and that the professor’s deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower – he already knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more….

1951. *Operation Pax* (aka The Paper Thunderbolt) [12 hrs 36 mins]. Read by Matt Addis.
A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this gripping tale whose thrilling climax takes place in the vaults of the Bodeleian.

1968. *Appleby At Allington* aka Death By Water. [5 hrs 45 mins] Read by Gordon Dulieu Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end but just as Appleby is leaving, they find a dead man – electrocuted in the son et lumihre box which had been installed in the grounds…

1986. *Appleby and the Ospreys* [5 hrs 29 mins] Read by Raymond Adamson .
Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate detective, Sir John Appleby. In the matter of bats, Appleby is indifferent, but he is soon faced with a real challenge – the murder of Lord Osprey, stabbed with an ornate dagger in the library…