J. I. M. Stewart Summary

The name Michael Innes is synonymous with the witty, academic crime novel beloved in the British tradition of mystery fiction. His Inspector Appleby series, which was published over half a century, se... Read more

Critical Essay by Julian Symons [Michael Innes certainly gave his books a thick] coating of urbane literary conversation, rather in the manner of Peacock strained through or distorted by Aldous Huxle... Read more

Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar ["Honeybath's Haven"] is a leisurely, traditional British mystery in which page after page is spent establishing character. Not until more tha... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Kennedy [On the whole, Full Term] does not contain as many intricate side plots and proliferating confusions as [Stewart's] earlier novels, but the dramatic high points... Read more

Critical Essay by Hermione Lee [To turn] to the prim, crusty, Ciceronian rectitude of J.I.M. Stewart's four long stories [in 'Our England Is a Garden'] is to seem to travel sharp... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Bann If a 19th-century paternity exists for [A Villa in France], it is surely in the mannered accomplishments of George Meredith, who is credited in passing with being the m... Read more

Critical Essay by Books and Bookmen If you recall all the epithets that have been used to describe Michael Innes' books in the past and repeat them [about Appleby and Honeybath], you will be p... Read more

Critical Essay by Anna Shapiro The major ingredients in this staid little novel ["An Open Prison"] are: a proper English boys' public school; a boy whose father is sent to prison... Read more

Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar [A] veteran writer who sees people clearly and with compassion is Michael Innes, and he brings Sir John Appleby back once again in "The Ampersand Papers.&#x... Read more

Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar "Lord Mullion's Secret" is a throwback to the classic British mystery of the 1930's. Charles Honeybath of the Royal Academy, who has ap... Read more

Critical Essay by Marghanita Laski [With] Innes one can be confident of an elegant tale which, though easily putdownable without itchy suspense, is almost certain to be picked up again; and so it is ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard Michael Innes is one of those almost relentlessly-literary mystery writers who are "thick on the ground," as he would say, only in England. In "... Read more