''A Connoisseur's Case'' is a 1962

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by the British writer Michael Innes. It is the eighteenth in his series featuring John Appleby of Scotland Yard. It is a

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, harking back to the

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. It was released in the United States by

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under the

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''The Crabtree Affair''.Reilly p.845

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