9781842327302 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable in Harrogate.

9780140114980 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1990), cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Inspector John Appleby visits utopia in the deep jungles of South America - and tangles with a high spirited conspiracy.

9781842327401 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'.

9781842327593 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Simney family, of Hazelwood Hall, have a dubious history.

9780140026504 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $3.50 | also contains Happy Easter, Curious George, Happy Easter, Curious George

9781842327524 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sir John and Lady Appleby attend a memorial exhibition of the oils, gouaches, collages and trouvailles of artist Gavin Limbert, who was recently found shot, under very suspicious circumstances.

9781842327494 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The forbears of Sir John Jory, of New Hall, would seem to have committed several foul acts, including tomb-robbery and murder.

9781842327395 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When portrait painter and occasional detective, Charles Honeybath, pays a visit to his old friend Edwin Lightfoot, there are a few surprises in store.

9781842327555 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95

9780060808792 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Respected Fine Art experts are deceived in one of the most intriguing murder cases Inspector Appleby has ever faced, beginning with Gribble, a collector of forgeries whose latest acquisition is found to be a forged forgery!

9781842327562 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Famous writer, Richard Eliot, has written numerous detective novels, featuring 'The Spider', a daring, clever criminal in earlier books, and an equally canny private investigator in later ones.

9780708904213, titled "A Connoisseurs Case" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, March 1, 1980), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When John Appleby's wife, Judith, sets eyes on Scroop House, she insists that they introduce themselves to the owners - a suggestion that makes her sometimes reserved husband turn very pale.

9781842327296 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When John Appleby's wife, Judith, sets eyes on Scroop House, she insists that they introduce themselves to the owners - a suggestion that makes her sometimes reserved husband turn very pale.

9781842327463 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Portrait painter, Charles Honeybath, is intrigued when he is visited by a mysterious Mr Peach and is commissioned to paint an anonymous, aristocratic sitter, known only as 'Mr X', whom relatives claim is insane.

9780140044379 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, December 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Mystery fiction, paperback.

9781842327456 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution.

9781842327579 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Stunning Belrive Priory, consisting of a mansion, park and medieval ruins, is surrounded by the noise and neon signs of its gaudy neighbours - a cotton-mill, a brewey and a main road.

9780070479982, titled "Africa: Where Do Elephants Live Underground?" | McGraw-Hill, April 1, 1989, cover price $3.95 | also contains Africa: Where Do Elephants Live Underground? | About this edition: As an Earth Inspector, the reader tries to find the strange place where elephants live underground

9780745172330 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Inspector Appleby is stranded on a very strange island, with a rather odd bunch of people - too many men, too few women (and one of them too attractive) cause a deal of trouble.

9780837133775 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1971, cover price $88.95 | About this edition: Inspector Appleby is stranded on a very strange island, with a rather odd bunch of people - too many men, too few women (and one of them too attractive) cause a deal of trouble.

9781842327159 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95

9780060806484 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Marooned on a tropical island, a suspicious death makes all of Appleby's fellow castaways murder suspects

9781842327425 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard - but there is no trace of this valuable object when Packford apparently commits suicide.

9780792701422 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard – but there is no trace of this valuable object when Packford apparently commits suicide.

9781842327388 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When a germ-warfare expert goes missing, his twin brother impersonates him as a cover-up, but for how long can this last?

9780060805906 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Sir John Appleby is assigned to investigate the disappearance of Howard Juniper, a scientist who has been working with a deadly strain of bacteria

9780745160498 | Chivers North Amer, December 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A top level scientist has disappeared, possibly with a devastatingly deadly serum in his pocket.

9780816199921 | G K Hall Audio Books, June 1, 1986, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: A top level scientist has disappeared, possibly with a devastatingly deadly serum in his pocket.

9781842327227 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rather cynical professional interest.

9781842327340 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As 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.

9780140172416 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1993), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: All he said was "London, a Poem".

9780140016925 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, September 1, 1976), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: All he said was "London, a Poem".

9781842327234 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording the intimate details of his own life and those of his friends.

9781842327241, titled "An Awkward Lie" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sir John Appleby's son, Bobby, assumes his father's detective role in this baffling crime.

9780140127850 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Bobby Appleby - son of retired Assistant Commissioner Sir John - finds a body in a golf-course bunker.

9781842327371 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: At Seamnum Court, seat of the Duke of Horton, The Lord Chancellor of England is murdered at the climax of a private presentation of Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius.

9780140114973, titled "Hamlet, Revenge: A Story in Four Parts" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1991), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: A murder executed during a private performance of Hamlet presents John Appleby of Scotland Yard with more than fifty suspects

9780708902240, titled "Appleby File" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: There are fifteen stories in this compelling collection, including: Poltergeist - when Appleby's wife tells him that her aunt is experiencing trouble with a Poltergeist, he is amused but dismissive, until he discovers that several priceless artefacts have been smashed as a result; A Question of Confidence - when Bobby Appleby's friend, Brian Button, is caught up in a scandalous murder in Oxford, Bobby's famous detective father is their first port of call; The Ascham - an abandoned car on a narrow lane intrigues Appleby and his wife, but even more intriguing is the medieval castle they stumble upon.

9781842327173 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: There are fifteen stories in this compelling collection, including: Poltergeist - when Appleby's wife tells him that her aunt is experiencing trouble with a Poltergeist, he is amused but dismissive, until he discovers that several priceless artefacts have been smashed as a result; A Question of Confidence - when Bobby Appleby's friend, Brian Button, is caught up in a scandalous murder in Oxford, Bobby's famous detective father is their first port of call; The Ascham - an abandoned car on a narrow lane intrigues Appleby and his wife, but even more intriguing is the medieval castle they stumble upon.

9781850578659 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1991), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A Sir John Appleby crime novel, in which his investigations into the murder of a minor poet in the pastoral vein take him to the Scottish Highlands, where he has to deal with an orgy of transvestism, a missing mathematician, and a secret formula in a collection of hastily-scrawled "Caravaggios".

9780060805845 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When a poet and scholar with an exceptionally quiet life turns up murdered on his country estate, Scotland Yard detective John Appleby is intrigued

9781842327258 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An assorted party of guests have gathered at Charne, home of Charles Martineau and his ailing wife, Grace, including Sir John Appleby and his wife, Judith.

9780060808112 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Sir John Appleby of Scotland Yard is witness to dreadful and bizarre events during a visit to a friend's huge country estate

9781842327166, titled "Appleby's End" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Appleby's End was the name of the station where Detective Inspector John Appleby got off the train from Scotland Yard.

9780060806491, titled "Appleby's End" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1983), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Detective-Inspector Appleby's chance meeting with the humorously eccentric Raven family becomes deadly serious when one of the Raven's is found murdered

9781842327210 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: David was hiking across Dartmoor, pleased to have escaped the oppressively juvenile and sometimes perilous behaviour of his fellow undergraduates.