Appleby Talking is a collection of detective short stories by the British writer Michael Innes published in 1954.

John Appleby, a Golden Age Scotland Yard detective, features in all twenty three stories.

[1] The series of novels had run since Death at the President's Lodging in 1936, but this was the first time shorter stories about Appleby's cases had been collected in a single volume.

It was published in the United States under the alternative title Dead Man's Shoes.

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