Michael Innes

Michael Innes was the pen name of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994), a Scottish novelist and academic born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford. He held the chair of English at the University of Adelaide from 1935 and later taught at Oxford.

As Michael Innes he wrote nearly fifty crime novels and story collections, best known for the Sir John Appleby series, which begins with Death at the President's Lodging (1936). Under his own name, J. I. M. Stewart, he published literary criticism and contemporary novels.