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George Bellairs
The disappearance of a reclusive widower sends Detective Littlejohn on a far-flung hunt for a killer in this classic British mystery.
It was meant to be a fool-proof scheme. The…
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"Slow and steady wins the case" as a dedicated London policeman puzzles through a fatal fall, a financial mystery, and an eccentric family's many secrets (Kirkus Reviews).
Miss Penelope Blow's…
A murder in plain sight brings Scotland Yard to investigate family secrets in a sleepy English town in this mystery from the beloved series.
In the close-knit community of Enderby…
Inspector Littlejohn confronts a challenging case across the Channel in this classic mystery from the "venerable" British author (Kirkus Reviews).
When Alderman Dawson is stabbed to death while visiting the…
Inspector Littlejohn is drawn into a perplexing case when a judge is murdered on the Isle of Man in this classic British mystery.
The small community of Castletown has plenty…
Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.
Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week…
A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery.
Cyril Savage has inherited the home…
Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly).
After a…
This night at the pub will be his last . . . A classic whodunit starring the "affable Scotland Yarder" (Publishers Weekly).
Harry Dodd needs a ride home from the…
A relaxing holiday is cut short by murder for the Scotland Yard detective in a mystery by "one of [the genre's] subtlest and wittiest practitioners" (The New York Times).
Set…
Crime and mystery fiction- part of George Bellair’s Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries: Again the author of The Case of the Famished Parson supplies his many fans with all the ingredients for…
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Against the background of Provence, a case is solved. Chief Inspector Littlejohn is sent to France to make enquiries about a motor accident. But his job is not easy, for…
Classic crime mystery - at the desolate farm of Great Lands the bodies of Harry Quill, the owner, and his wife are discovered lying on the doorstep by the police…
In the wake of Mr William Blow’s death, his surviving relatives are tangled up in family secrets and financial mystery. So when Miss Penelope Blow suddenly dies by falling out…
During a police conference in Geneva detective Alec Cling is murdered and his body found in a in a rose garden in a car that belonged to Superintendent Littlejohn. Littlejohn…
Ned Bunn wasn’t a popular member of the community of Enderby, a sleepy village in Leicestershire. But when he is murdered on the doorstep of his own shop there’s a…
Doctor Beharrell, a promi-nent physician, is found murdered in a secret room in his home in snobby Abbot’s Caldicott, East Anglia. Superintendent Littlejohn goes to investigate. Classic crime part of…
Sergeant Cromwell, faithful assistant and friend of Superintendent Littlejohn is shot through the head whilst attending the funeral of his uncle Richard.The famous Superintendent settles down in Rushton Inferior and…
When Samuel Cheever, a shady dealer, goes to France to buy antiques and never returns, people in his home-town of Francaster begin to ask questions. Superintendent Littlejohn travels to France…
After a bang on the curraghs in the Isle of Man, he Vicar, the Revered Sullivan Lee, is discovered praying beside the murdered body of Sir Martin Skollick, the squire…
Superintendent Littlejohn arrives in the village of Carleton Unthank to investigate a triple murder that has left the town crippled with fear. With the threat of another murder looming, Littlejohn…
George Keelagher, head of a stock-broking firm in the city, thrusts himself on his nephew Waldo and his wife Averil, when holidaying in the south of France. Not long after…
Miss Melody Johnson, an old unmarried lady, dies in the strange village of Plumpton Bois and leaves everything to her sole surviving relative who cannot wait to inspect the property…
Even the most meticulous criminals can be caught out, but Littlejohn and Cromwell find themselves with more than one mystery to unravel - but will they be able to find…
It’s holiday time in Douglas and the town is alive with a carnival, but as the promenade empties, a man is found dead. Littlejohn is caught up in the mystery…
Littlejohn finds himself facing one of the most baffling mysteries of his career as a brutal murder takes him to the small community of the Isle of Man. The Isle’s…
Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted he must…
A week after a man is reported missing, he is found wandering the streets of London. Escorted back to the Isle of Man by Littlejohn, he is found dead a…
The glamour of Hollywood has descended upon the Isle of Man. But behind this glossy facade, a charismatic actor, is found dead in his hotel room and Littlejohn is called…
Tensions run high when a man is found violently stabbed and his family accuse a young boy of his murder. The boy maintains his innocence, but the victim’s influential family…
Littlejohn’s relaxing holiday in Tilsey is interrupted when a local judge is found dead in his home. With Cromwell, Littlejohn has the difficult task of sifting out the murderer from…
The mayor of Westcome has a speciality for painting a target on his own back. So when he dies at a luncheon, foul play is suspected. Littlejohn is brought in…
This trip to the French Riviera isn’t what anyone signed up for: Littlejohn loses his vacation, another man loses his life. When the victim of a deathly stabbing, calls Littlejohn…
But when a skipper’s body is later found under a pier, stabbed in the back, authorities realise this was more than just an accident. Though Littlejohnis called to investigate, he…
The 1st in the Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries series: Crime fiction. Inspector Littlejohn faces a peculiar case. How to explain the savage murder of a gentle Bishop?The Bishop of Greyle was…
Traditional British murder mystery - On the Night that Joss Varran was expected home after a visit to Wormwood Scrubs, his body was found in a ditch right opposite the…
First published in 1973, Devious Murder is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, tantalising clues and colourful characters.
Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of…
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…
First published in 1948, Death on the Last Train is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of false leads, dead ends and old-fashioned charm.
Detective Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard…
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…
When a petty hoodlum encounters murder most foul, Inspector Littlejohn must uncover the dark secrets of a sleepy English village in this classic mystery.
It's a quiet night at the…
A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the "pure British detective story" (The New York Times).
The Manx Shearwater was scallop…
The mayor of a seaside town is murdered, and a London police detective must sort through motives both political and personal...
Thanks to its mayor, Sir Gideon Ware, the quiet…
Georges Bellair
Arbres fruitiers… Date de l'edition originale: 1891
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE…
When Harry Dodd calls Dorothy Nicholls for a ride home from the pub, she and her mother think he’s just had too much to drink. Little do they know that…
Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of .
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Superintendent Littlejohn is summoned to Surrey to investigate murder by explosion in Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences.
The eponymous nosy parker Miss Ethel Tither, who has made herself deeply unpopular by going out of her way to snoop on people, is found floating in a cesspool, having…
