{"product_id":"from-london-far-book-michael-innes-9781842327340","title":"From London Far","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian. From then on he is trapped in a maze of the illicit art trade, in the company of the redoubtable Jane Halliwell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author: Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, \u003ci\u003eDeath at the President's Lodging\u003c\/i\u003e. With his second, \u003ci\u003eHamlet Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War I, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the \u003ci\u003eJourneying Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is 'Honeybath', the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Commission\u003c\/i\u003e. The last novel, \u003ci\u003eAppleby and the Ospreys\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572004364561,"sku":"GOR003035282","price":13.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638051086609,"sku":"GOR002289230","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392377229585,"sku":"CIN1842327348G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842327348.jpg?v=1751185552","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/from-london-far-buch-michael-innes-9781842327340","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}