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.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