Michael Innes THE BLOODY WOOD First Edition
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Michael Innes THE BLOODY WOOD First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of THE BLOODY WOOD by Michael Innes and published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, in 1966.
The book is in very good condition (clean red cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine) with minor wear to the bright yellow paper dust jacket, which is not price clipped (very slight chipping to the corners, one inch closed tear to the top corner at the back, and another to the top spine corner, a finger nail tear to the botton edge at the front, slightly grubby in parts). Internally, the pages are clean and tight, there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is some heavy tanning to the back end paper and somewhat less to the front end paper, and some light foxing here and there.
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart - Scottish novelist and academic is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. Many devotees of the Innes books were unaware of his other "identity", and vice versa.
He published nearly fifty crime novels and short story collections, which he later described as "entertainments". These abound in literary allusions and in what critics have variously described as "mischievous wit", "exuberant fancy" and a "tongue-in-cheek propensity" for intriguing turns of phrase.
The best-known of Innes's detective creations is Sir John Appleby, who is introduced in Death at the President's Lodging, in which he is a Detective Inspector at Scotland Yard. Appleby features in many of the later novels and short stories, in the course of which he rises to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Other novels feature portrait painter and Royal Academician, Charles Honeybath, an amateur but nonetheless effective sleuth. The two detectives meet in Appleby and Honeybath. Some of the later stories feature Appleby's son Bobby as sleuth.
The Bloody Wood is a book in the Inspector Appleby series.
"An assorted party of guests have gathered at Charne, home of Charles Martineau and his ailing wife, Grace, including Sir John Appleby and his wife, Judith. Appleby's suspicions are soon aroused with the odd behaviour of Charles, and the curious last request of Grace - who desires that upon her death, Charles marries her favourite niece, Martine. When Charles and Grace die on the same day, foul play is suspected."
"Mr. Innes is the most adeptly and allusively elephantine wit presently committed to the English language." -- New York Herald Tribune
192 pages.
ISBN: n/a
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