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by George Bellairs
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Availability:In StockContributor:George BellairsSeries:Inspector Littlejohn MysteriesPublish date:2024-07-16Pages:220
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.ISBN-13:9781504092494ISBN-10:150409249XUPC:9781504092494Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Private InvestigatorsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCM2D6RAW6
When a serial killer stalks a sleepy English village, a Scotland Yard detective must search for clues among terrified townsfolk in this classic mystery.

Samuel Bracknell is found dead in his home with a knife in his back. It's the third murder of its kind in as many weeks, and the residents of Carleton Unthank are left shaken. When Superintendent Littlejohn learns that all three crimes were committed with the same knife, a disturbing question arises: why, then, was the knife left in Bracknell's body?

When a fourth body turns up, this one an apparent suicide, Littlejohn is baffled. This once quaint village is gaining a ghoulish reputation. As the threat of murder looms each time the sun sets, Littlejohn must face sleep-deprived residents, no clues, and a race against the clock to prevent the body count from rising any further.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.ISBN-13:9781504092494ISBN-10:150409249XUPC:9781504092494Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Private InvestigatorsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCM2D6RAW6
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), an English crime author best known for the creation of Detective-Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. Born in Heywood, near Lancashire, Blundell introduced his famous detective in his first novel, Littlejohn on Leave (1941). A low-key Scotland Yard investigator whose adventures were told in the Golden Age style of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Littlejohn went on to appear in more than fifty novels, including The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge (1946), Outrage on Gallows Hill (1949), and The Case of the Headless Jesuit (1950).

In the 1950s Bellairs relocated to the Isle of Man, a remote island in the Irish Sea, and began writing full time. He continued writing Thomas Littlejohn novels for the rest of his life, taking occasional breaks to write standalone novels, concluding the series with An Old Man Dies (1980).

Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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