George Bellairs
Born
in Heywood, Greater Manchester , The United Kingdom
April 19, 1902
Died
April 18, 1982
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Death of a Busybody (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #3)
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1942
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The Body in the Dumb River (Thomas Littlejohn #35)
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1961
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Surfeit of Suspects
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1964
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The Case of the Famished Parson (Inspector Littlejohn #15)
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1949
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The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #4-5)
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2016
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The Case of the Seven Whistlers (Thomas Littlejohn #6)
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1944
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Calamity at Harwood (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #7)
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1945
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The Case of the Demented Spiv (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #14)
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1949
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Dead March for Penelope Blow (The Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries Book 4)
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1951
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A Knife for Harry Dodd (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #21)
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1953
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“To the west of the Great North Road and just where it chops off a portion of the eastern fringe of Brentshire, there lies a district of England which has given its name to a fine breed of sheep, a heavy-cropping tomato, an inferior mangel-wurzel and a now obsolete form of the ague found there before the marshes were drained.”
― Death Stops the Frolic
― Death Stops the Frolic
“There is naturally much inter-marriage among Zionists, and in times of trouble families are united, those with even the most attenuated blood connections arraying themselves with their kith and kin. The dispute over Harbuttle and his offers of marriage, therefore, grows into a miniature war of the roses. In no time, the classroom is filled to overflowing with a crowd of angry, milling women, pushing each other about, afraid to smite hard but resorting to jostling, charging, thrusting and pulling tactics and using arms, elbows, bosoms, hindquarters and knees like battering rams. The noise is appalling. Speech flows freely and angry, vulgar words rush forth in torrents. Place, dignity, decorum are all forgotten in this release of pent-up feelings. The saintly, peace-loving women who one by one thrust themselves in the doorway of the room hoping in some way to calm the storm, are unwillingly sucked into the maelstrom and, before they know where they are, are rampaging with the rest. The men, dumbfounded and nonplussed, hang back, knowing that once they intrude, the bloody masculine forms of combat may supervene and replace the more dishevelled and shrill, but less deadly feminine type.”
― Death Stops the Frolic
― Death Stops the Frolic
“Mrs. Cliffe-Wynrowe, the would-be leader of musical activities. She had all the lights on and the curtains drawn back as far as they would go, and she was to be seen thrashing the piano, flinging her long, thin arms up and down and contorting her body like an epileptic for the benefit of passers-by.”
― Outrage on Gallows Hill
― Outrage on Gallows Hill
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