{"product_id":"2026200011252-secondhand-the-daffodil-affair","title":"The Daffodil Affair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a stolen horse named Daffodil and a missing girl with strange mental abilities disappear simultaneously, Inspector John Appleby finds himself drawn into one of the most bewildering and darkly comic investigations of his career, sweeping from the fog-laden streets of London to the eerie wilds of Patagonia. The Daffodil Affair, published in 1942, is a masterwork of absurdist detective fiction that gleefully blurs the line between the rationally explicable and the genuinely uncanny, weaving together threads of conspiracy, espionage, and the supernatural into a plot of dizzying invention.\n\nMichael Innes — the pen name of academic and literary scholar J.I.M. Stewart — was celebrated for bringing an unmatched erudition and wit to the golden age mystery genre, and this novel stands as one of his most audacious achievements. His prose crackles with literary allusion, dry humour, and a donnish playfulness that sets him apart from his contemporaries. Readers who surrender to its labyrinthine logic will find themselves rewarded with a tale that is as intellectually stimulating as it is thrillingly strange — one that raises the question of just how thin the veil truly is between the world we know and the one we dare not imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161025487067,"sku":"2026200011252-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7054993a-1259-4430-bf69-91d18b779afe.png?v=1787189331","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011252-secondhand-the-daffodil-affair","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}