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A Knife For Harry Dodd
A review of A Knife for Harry Dodd by George Bellairs – 240604 If you like a story with a high body count, then the eighteenth or possibly twenty-first in George Bellairs’ Inspector Thomas Littlejohn is likely to satisfy you. There are three murders, a fire, a death from natural causes after a chase by a bull, and a murder aboard a vessel and loss at sea following a maritime collision and while…
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Surfeit Of Suspects
A review of Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs – 240522 A feature of 1960s municipal life, brought into the spotlight by the likes of Private Eye, was corruption and shady dealings, especially around the subject of planning applications. Many a small fortune was made by speculating on land for which planning permission was imminent, making access to inside knowledge worth its weight in gold.…
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The Body In The Dumb River
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A review of The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs – 230808 Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a man who worked as a bank manager by day and moonlighted as a writer of crime fiction at night should have been interested by the possibilities offered by a man who leads a double life. The Body in the Dumb River, originally published in 1961 and now reissued as part of the British…
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Book Corner – June 2020 (1)
Book Corner – June 2020 (1) - The Murder of a Quack by George Bellairs
The Murder of a Quack – George Bellairs
This is a rather light but entertaining story featuring the amiable Inspector Littlejohn from Scotland Yard. His Modus operandi is one of steady as she goes, a methodical trawl through the clues and interviewing witnesses and suspects. What might be a pedestrian read is spiced up by Bellairs’ natural humour and sharp observation.
The quack in question…
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Book Corner – April 2020 (5)
Book Corner – April 2020 (5) The Dead shall be Raised by George Bellairs, an engaging whodunnit
The Dead Shall Be Raised – George Bellairs
George Bellairs worked in a bank. To relieve the monotony, he wrote when he could and became a prolific, if somewhat underrated, producer of novels and short stories, often featuring his detective creation, Inspector Littlejohn of the Yard. Having only sampled his short stories, courtesy of Martin Edwards’ anthologies of crime stories from the…
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