Crossover Cover: Money from Holme

 

Are you a fan of mystery author Michael Innes?

Then you'll love this standalone novel by him, which has a character who also appears in his Sir John Appleby series!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: What Happened at Hazelwood

Inspector Cadover investigates the murder of Sir George Simney. Inspector Appleby is mentioned several times. Innes’ series character Sir John Appleby is solidly in the CU already. Cadover reappeared in The Journeying Boy, which also contained references to Appleby, and then actually met Sir John in A Private View and “The Key.”

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Appleby at Allington (aka Death by Water)

 

Are you a fan of Michael Innes' Sir John Appleby mysteries?

Then you'll love this novel, which has nods to William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Holy Disorders

Oxford don and amateur detective Gervase Fen is disgusted when Scotland Yard becomes involved in the case he’s investigating. There is talk of sending down Sir John Appleby to look into the matter. Gervase Fen is already in the CU through a reference in James Anderson’s novel The Affair of the Mutilated Mink; the reference to Michael Innes’ sleuth Sir John Appleby bolsters his inclusion.

Crossover Covers: Inspector Wilkins

This series of novels is an affectionate pastiche of 1930s locked room mystery novels, with Inspector Wilkins repeatedly having to investigate murders at the home of the unlucky Earl of Burford. All three novels have references to detective fiction of that era, which treat the characters mentioned as real people. In The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (published in 1975), Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is referred to by Wilkins. The Affair of the Mutilated Mink (1983) has several references: Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey; Michael Innes' Sir John Appleby (along with Richard Eliot's book The Spider Bites Back from the Appleby novel Stop Press); Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn; Agatha Christie's Ariadne Oliver (from the Hercule Poirot books, as well as the non-series novel The Pale Horse) and her book Death of a Debutante (mentioned in Mrs. McGinty's Dead); and The Screaming Bone by Annette de la Tour, the pen name of Mr. Judd in Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen novel Buried for Pleasure. The third and final Wilkins novel, The Case of the 39 Cufflinks, refers to Lord Peter Wimsey once again, along with his manservant Bunter.

Crossover Cover: Appleby and Honeybath

In this book, Michael Innes teams up two of his series characters, retired Commissioner of Police Sir John Appleby (who was already in the CU through other crossovers) and artist Charles Honeybath, who previously appeared in The Mysterious Commission, Honeybath's Haven, and Lord Mullion's Secret. There is also a reference to the county of Barsetshire from Anthony Trollope's six Chronicles of Barchester novels.