Murder Adrift
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1960s nineteen sixties
A01=George Bellairs
Author_George Bellairs
britain
Category=FFJ
Category=FFP
Chief Inspector Littlejohn
crime
detective
england
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family jealousy
Hopkinson
illegal immigration
illness
marital betrayal
mid 20th twentieth century
mystery
racial prejudice
scandal
Scotland Yard
sidekick
small coastal town
uk united kingdom
Product details
- ISBN 9781448217304
- Weight: 316g
- 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 1972, this is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of secrecy, duplicity and twisted loyalties.
The Todds, governed by the widowed matriarch, Mrs Todd, are well-known in Fordinghurst.
When Heck, the philandering youngest son, is found murdered on his boat, they do their best to hush up the scandal.
With the local constabulary depleted through illness and strained by an epidemic of illegal immigration, Chief Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard and his new recruit, Hopkinson, are called in to investigate. Faced with a tangle of family jealousy, marital betrayal and racial prejudice, Littlejohn persists, leading to a slew of confessions.
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.
