Affair (1942) The Weight of the Evidence (1943) Appleby's End (1945) A Night of Errors (1947) Operation Pax (1951) (also known as The Paper Thunderbolt) A Private View (1952) (also known as One-Man Show and Murder Is an Art) Appleby Plays Chicken (1957) (also known as Death on a Quiet Day) The Long Farewell (1958) Hare Sitting Up (1959) Silence Observed (1961) A Connoisseur's Case (1962) (also known as The Crabtree Affair) The Bloody Wood (1966) Appleby at Allington (1968) (also known as Death by Water) A Family Affair (1969) (also known as Picture of Guilt) Death at the Chase (1970) An Awkward Lie (1971), The Open House (1972), Appleby's Answer (1973), Appleby's Other Story (1974), The Gay Phoenix (1976), The Ampersand Papers (1978), Sheiks and Adders (1982), Appleby and Honeybath (1983), Carson's Conspiracy (1984), Appleby and the Ospreys (1986), Short Story Collections Appleby Talking (1954) (also known as Dead Man's Shoes) Appleby Talks Again (1956) Appleby Intervenes (1965) The Appleby File (1975), Appleby Talks About Crime (2010), Adaptations Television A Connoisseur's Case and Lesson in Anatomy were adapted for the 1960s BBC anthology series Detective, with Appleby being played by Dennis Price and Ian Ogilvy, respectively. Radio In 1982, Appleby's End was adapted for BBC Radio's Saturday Night Theatre, with John Hurt as Appleby. References Appleby, John Appleby, John Appleby, John Series of books Literary characters introduced in 1936