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The Body in the Dumb River
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3.5
“This was my first introduction to Inspector Littlejohn, and a very satisfying one. A man who runs a hoopla stall is murdered, which comes as a shock to his family, who didn't realise he ran a hoopla stall. I enjoyed Bellairs's writing, and the way the story gradually unfolded. The only slight letdown was the ending, but I can see myself doing much more Littlejohn reading in the future (there are so many!)”
About George Bellairs
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,
(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
(1946),
(1949), and
(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
(1980).
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