John Appleby is a 20th-century British author of pulp novels, many of them mysteries or suspense fiction.^[1] His works include Captive City, which was made into a film, Conquered City.^[2]

• Tin trumpet at dawn (London : Werner Laurie, 1950) OCLC 10746780 ^[3]
• Aphrodite Means Death. (London : Werner Laurie, 1951) Sydney: Shakespeare Head, 1952. OCLC 223707016. "American edition has title: The arms of Venus." ^[4]
• Barbary Hoard. New York: Coward-McCann, 1952. OCLC 1662872
• The Singing Cave. Laurie, 1952. OCLC 30168577
• The Dark Corsican. Werner Laurie, UK, 1953
• Stars in the Water. New York: Coward-McCann, 1953. OCLC 1662348. Published in the United States by Dell in 1958, with the title "Grounds for Murder" ^[5]
• Venice Preserve Me. Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. OCLC 30198989
• The Captive City New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1955. OCLC 1662373
• The Secret Mountains. Hodder & Stoughton, 1955 OCLC 59016005
• The Stuffed Swan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. OCLC 12652460
• The Bad Summer. New York: I. Washburn, 1958. OCLC 1747219
• The Loving Strangers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. ISBN 978-0-340-02984-8 ^[6]

• John Appleby at IMDb