Appleby Talking

{{Short description|1954 short story collection}} {{infobox book | name = Appleby Talking | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:Dead Man's Shoes.jpg | caption = American First edition cover | author = Michael Innes | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Sir John Appleby | genre = Detective | publisher =Gollancz <br/> Dodd, Mead (US) | release_date = 1954 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by =A Private View | followed_by = Appleby Plays Chicken }} '''''Appleby Talking''''' is a collection of detective short stories by the British writer Michael Innes published in 1954. John Appleby, a Golden Age Scotland Yard detective, features in all twenty three stories.<ref>Scheper p.210</ref> The series of novels had run since ''Death at the President's Lodging'' in 1936, but this was the first time shorter stories about Appleby's cases had been collected in a single volume.<ref>Reilly p.395</ref> It was followed by a second collection ''Appleby Talks Again'' in 1956. It was published in the United States under the alternative title '''''Dead Man's Shoes'''''.

==Stories== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Appleby's First Case'' * ''Pokerwork'' * ''The Spendlove Papers'' * ''The Furies'' * ''Eye Witness'' * ''The Bandertree Case'' * ''The Key'' * ''The Flight of Patroclus'' * ''The Clock-Face Case'' * ''Miss Geach'' * ''Tragedy of a Handkerchief'' * ''The Cave of Belarius'' * ''A Nice Cup of Tea'' * ''The Sands of Thyme'' * ''The X-Plan'' * ''Lesson in Anatomy'' * ''Imperious Caesar'' * ''The Clancarron Ball'' * ''A Dog's Life'' * ''A Derby Horse'' * ''William the Conqueror'' * ''Dead Man's Shoes'' * ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' {{div col end}}

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==Bibliography== * Hubin, Allen J. ''Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography''. Garland Publishing, 1984. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * Scheper, George L. ''Michael Innes''. Ungar, 1986.

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