Harry Dodd is stabbed in the back on his way home from the pub.But instead of calling for the police, he summoned his mistress and her mother to fetch him.When Inspector Littlejohn and his colleague, Cromwell, are called in to investigate they find themselves with a mystery on their hands, one with layers of intrigue that takes them into the heart of a family riven with conflicts. And when the victim’s lawyer and father both meet similarly suspicious ends, it becomes clear that someone is desperate to cover their tracks, and conceal their web of lies. From a local asylum to a gentleman’s club, and with false alibis given at every turn, the detectives find themselves becoming more confused at every turn…Praise for George Bellairs:"One of the subtlest and wittiest practitioners of the...British detective story" - The New York Times"Sure-fire, that's Bellairs." - New York Herald TribuneGeorge Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, who settled in the Isle of Man on retirement. He wrote more than 50 books, most featuring the detective Inspector Littlejohn. He also wrote four novels under the alternative pseudonym Hilary Landon.
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