1960s nineteen sixties
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Author_George Bellairs
britain
British
Category=FFJ
Chief Inspector Thomas Littlejohn
classic
cop
cosy cozy
crime
detective
detective fiction
edmun crispin
england
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europe
france
Golden Age Crime Writing
Golden Age of Crime
london
margery allingham
mid-20th twentieth century
murder mystery
mystery
P.D. James
paris
policeman protagonist main character
Scotland Yard
united kingdom
Product details
- ISBN 9781448217328
- Weight: 335g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1962, Death Before Breakfast is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, mysterious motives, and ingenious speculation.
On her way to church early one morning, Mrs. Jump sees a dead body in the gutter in July Street. Frightened, she hurries on, but her conscience convinces her to return, only to find the body gone.
Doubting herself, she nevertheless tells her boss, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, who decides to investigate further. He soon discovers that July Street is full of unusual people.
Everyone has a motive. Everyone is a suspect.
From London to Paris and back, Littlejohn unravels the tangled web of connections between this curious cast of characters to expose the murderer.
George Bellairs is a pen name of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), a crime writer born in Lancashire. Blundell was a prolific writer who published over 50 crime and mystery novels in his life, most of them featuring the detective Inspector Littlejohn. Blundell also wrote regularly for the Manchester Guardian.
