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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart HonFRSE (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes .
J.I.M. Stewart was a British novelist, literary critic, and educator who created the character of Inspector John Appleby, a British detective known for his suave humour and literary finesse. Stewart was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and lectured in English at the University of Leeds from 1930.
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Jan 19, 2021 · A review of J. I. M. Stewart's The Gaudy, a novel set at Oxford with witty allusions to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. The reviewer praises Stewart's humor, characterization, and plot, and contrasts him with his more famous pen name, Michael Innes.
Nov 16, 1994 · J. I. M. Stewart, an Oxford don who wrote 49 mysteries under the pseudonym Michael Innes, died on Saturday in Surrey in southern England. He was 88. His agent, A. P. Watt, did not...
A Staircase in Surrey is a sequence of five novels by Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994), and published between 1974 and 1978 by Victor Gollancz in London.
Quick Reference. (1906–94), Edinburgh novelist and critic, under the pseudonym Michael Innes wrote many successful works of detective fiction beginning with Death at the President's Lodging (1936), which introduced his detective, John Appleby of Scotland Yard; they are rich in literary allusions and quotations.
Jun 7, 1984 · J.I.M. Stewart novelist and former reader in English Literature at Oxford, is the author of Eight Modern Writers and of books on Kipling, Conrad and Hardy.
