Michael Innes

Michael Innes (actually John Innes Mackintosh Stewart ; * the thirtieth September 1906 in Scotland Edinburgh , † 12. November 1994 in Coulsdon in English Surrey ) was a Scottish crime writer . He also held a professorship for English and literary studies.

Life

Stewart was initially a student at the Edinburgh Academy and then studied English literature at Oriel College , Oxford . In 1929 he studied psychoanalysis in Vienna . From 1930 to 1935 he taught English literature at Leeds University. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a medic. Innes wrote his first novel in 1936 during a long sea voyage to Australia , where he had taken on a professorship at the University of Adelaide . From 1946 to 1948 he taught at Queen's University Belfast Belfast and then moved to Christ Church College Oxford.

The main character of his detective stories is Detective Inspector John Appleby , who in Innes' first novel Too much light in the dark has to deal with the dark side of university operations. The main setting for many of his novels is Oxford and the surrounding area.

Innes wrote about as many novels over the course of 50 years. A selection of these has appeared in the DuMonts Kriminal-Bibliothek series.

Works

• Death At the President's Lodging (1936) ( Too much light in the dark )
• Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) (German Hamlet's revenge , also as Hamlet, avenge you! )
• Lament for a Maker (1938) (German lament for a poet )
• Stop Press (1939)
• The Secret Vanguard (1940) (dt. The secret vanguard )
• There Came Both Mist And Snow (1940)
• Appleby On Ararat (1941) (German Appleby's Ark )
• The Daffodil Affair (1942) (Eng. The Fall of the Lily of the Valley )
• The Weight of the Evidence (1943) (dt. The burden of proof )
• Appleby's End (1945) (German Appleby's End )
• From London Far (1946)
• A Night of Errors (1947)
• The Journeying Boy (1949)
• Operation Pax (1951) (German Operation Pax )
• A Private View (1952)
• Christmas At Candleshoe (1953) (dt. Christmas on Candleshoe ) - filmed in 1977 as Candleshoe with Jodie Foster , Helen Hayes , David Niven , Leo McKern u. a.
• The Man from the Sea (1955)
• Old Hall, New Hall (1956)
• Appleby Plays Chicken (1957) (German rabbit hunt )
• The Long Farewell (1958)
• Hare Sitting Up (1959)
• The New Sonia Wayward (1960)
• Silence Observed (1961) ( Strange parallels )
• A Connoisseur's Case (1962) (German dangerous return )
• The Bloody Wood (1966)
• A Change of Heir (1966)
• Appleby at Allington (1968) ( The last of the Allingtons )
• A Family Affair (1969)
• Death At the Chase (1970)
• To Awkward Lie (1971)
• The Open House (1972)
• Appleby's Answer (1973)
• Appleby's Other Story (1974)
• The Mysterious Commission (1974) (German pictures, artists, don't murder )
• The Gay Phoenix (1976)
• Honeybath's Haven (1977) ( a safe haven )
• The Ampersand Papers (1978)
• Going It Alone (1980)
• Lord Mullion's Secret (1981) (dt. Lord Mullions secret )
• Sheiks and Adders (1982) (German sheikhs and snakes )
• Appleby And Honeybath (1983) (German Appleby and Honeybath )
• Carson's Conspiracy (1984)
• Appleby And the Ospreys (1986)

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Innes in the catalog of the German National Library