All our books are showing actual photographs for you to inspect. All books have good clean intact dust jackets and are in very good order internally. At the time of listing we put 12 Michael Innes crime novels onto this web site; all were published by Gollancz who specialised in quality themes of writing such as crime novels by quality writers. So if you are interested in further books they might be there?? Between 1936 and 1986, Stewart, writing under this pseudonym of Michael Innes, published nearly fifty crime novels. He is best known for creating Detective Inspector Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard, who eventually through the course of the later novels becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards, he is found dead in the library with a copy of Dante\'s Purgatory open before him.