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Murder Adrift
Murder Adrift
Murder Adrift
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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 9, 2014
ISBN9781448214471
Murder Adrift
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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 Chief Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard. Unusually this time without the assistance of his trusty assistant Cromwell. Instead callow newcomer 'Hoppy' Hopkinson lends a hand. The case in question concerns the dead body of one 'Hec' Todd,who has been shot in the head and left in his boat floating out at sea.Todd was member of a family,ruled over by his strong-willed mother. The family own an old-established wine business in the costal town of Fordinghurst. Littlejohn has his work cut out to establish the facts in this one,as there are many false leads and other strands to get over before he arrives at the true solution - or does he ?

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