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Death Before Breakfast
Death Before Breakfast
Death Before Breakfast
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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 26, 2014
ISBN9781448214464
Death Before Breakfast
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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, 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, including The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge (1946), Outrage on Gallows Hill (1949), and The Case of the Headless Jesuit (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 An Old Man Dies (1980).

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    Another case for Superintendent Littlejohn and his faithful assistant Sergeant Cromwell. This one concerns a dead body which subsequently vanishes.There is the usual selection of odd and comic characters,including a char woman,a french polisher,a somewhat unusual doctor and a master jewel thief.While not perhaps one of Bellairs best,it still has many good moments.

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