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A Staircase in Surrey is a series of contemporary novels by Scottish novelist J.I.M. Stewart (aka Michael Innes). The novels are set in a fictional college in Oxford University (where the author once studied). The “staircase” in the title refers to the students’ rooms in the college. The novels focus on Duncan Patullo, a playwright, […]
Michael Innes is the pseudonym of Scottish author John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994), who wrote crime fiction as Michael Innes and contemporary fiction and non-fiction as J.I.M. Stewart. He is the author of the Inspector Appleby series. Stewart was born in Edinburgh, where he also grew up. He studied at several different universities all over […]