{"product_id":"hare-sitting-up-book-innes-9780099547600","title":"HARE SITTING UP","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a germ-warfare expert goes missing, his twin brother impersonates him as a cover-up, but for how long can this last? Inspector Appleby is sent on a series of wild goose chases, which take him to a preparatory school, to the estate of an eccentric earl, and to a remote Atlantic rock, before a truly shocking climax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 InnesInnes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholarAfter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelistThe 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\u003eWith his second, \u003ci\u003eHamlet Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 settingHe then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973His most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this dayInnes'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\u003eThe 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 \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597761749265,"sku":"GOR003717190","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49755612053777,"sku":"GOR003585672","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50985773957393,"sku":"GOR004472219","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0099547600.jpg?v=1751100547","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hare-sitting-up-book-innes-9780099547600","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}