Appleby's End by Michael Innes

[Riklaa]

Appleby's End by Michael Innes

SNT: 10th April 1982 @ 8:00 p.m.

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Appleby's End was the name of the station where Detective Inspector John Appleby got off the train from Scotland Yard. But that was not the only coincidence. Everything that happened from then on related back to stories by Ranulph Raven, Victorian novelist - animals were replaced by marble effigies, someone received a tombstone telling him when he would die, and a servant was found buried up to his neck in snow, dead. Why did Ranulph Raven's mysterious descendants make such a point of inviting Appleby to spend the night at their house?

Dramatised by Michael Blakewell from Innes' 1945 novel

With John Hurt [Detective Inspector John Appleby], John Le Mesurier [Everard Raven], Christopher Benjamin [Heyhoe / Inspector Mutlow], Joyce Redman [Clarissa], Pippa Guard [Judith Raven], Lewis Stringer [Luke], Anthony Newlands [Robert], Richard Derrington [Mark], John Sharp [Rainbird], Christopher Douglas [Billy Bidewell / Mr. Hoobin], Jack May [Colonel Pike], Hugh Dickson [Sir Mulberry Farmer / Liddell], Pauline Letts [Lady Farmer / Mrs. Ulstrup / Hannah Hoobin], David Gooderson [Gregory Grope], Trevor Baxter [Mr. Smith], Stephen Garlick [Hannah Hoobin's Boy], and John Livesey [Brettingham Scurl / Scott].

Directed by Jane Morgan


About the Author

Born in Edinburgh , John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. After graduation he went to Vienna,
to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year. His first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, got him a
lectureship at the University of Leeds. In later years he taught at the universities of Adelaide, Belfast and Oxford. Under his
pseudonym, Michael Innes, he wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories. His most famous character is Inspector
John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. His other well-known character is
Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 'The Mysterious Commission', in 1975. Stewart's
last novel, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', appeared in 1986.

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[Robert Johnson]

Thanks Rick.

Robert Johnson

[Gerald Lea]

Great stuff, I think this was in the same Crime at Xmas series as Dorothy Sayers 'Nine Tailors'.

[Riklaa]

I have that series.  I got it from Katy.  I didn't get it until after Christmas because she was away.  I was going to wait until next Christmas Season to post.  If you really want it I will post now, but I would rather wait until next Christmas season.  I usually save plays for Christmas until the season but did not this last year because I was quite ill and had all I could do to keep posting.  Let me know.  -------------------------------------  Rick

[Robert Flood]

Rick -

Again I thank you so much.  When I was in hospital recently with my cancer surgery (praise God no cancer) I took all the wonderful mysteries you provided and listened while recovering.  It made getting my thyroid removed bearable and I truly wanted to say bless you for them and all the work you do for us all.

Bob

[Riklaa]

I am glad you are alright.  I have become used to your wonderful Thank Yous.  I hope to get many more.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Rick

[Jim Robarts]

Thanks Rick....this one sounds interesting.

[AK]

Thanks Rick - this sounds fantastic! can't wait to listen! AK

[Riklaa]

You are quite wecome.  -------------------------  Rick

[WWB]

Since the weather has turned cold and wet, I'm taking a few days to "stock up" on the mysteries.  Thanks Rick.  WWB