Murder Adrift

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.

About the author

George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), an English crime author best known for the creation of Detective-Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Bellairs, George (Author) Bellairs, Bellairs George
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781448217304
• ISBN: 978-1-4482-1730-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1960 to c 1970, Crime and mystery: police procedural, c 1960 to c 1969, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery