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Death of a Busybody (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Bellairs, George

 
9780712356442: Death of a Busybody (British Library Crime Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712356444 ISBN 13: 9780712356442
Verlag: British Library Publ., 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither. She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna, since she goes out of her way to snoop on people, and interfere with their lives. On being introduced to her, the seasoned reader of detective stories will spot a murder victim in the making. Sure enough, by the end of chapter one, this unpleasant lady has met an extremely unpleasant fate. She is found floating in a cesspool, having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water.This is, in every way, a murky business; realising that they are out of their depth, the local police quickly call in the Yard. Inspector Thomas Littlejohn, George Bellairs' series detective, arrives on the train, and in casting around for suspects, he finds that he is spoiled for choice. The amiable vicar supplies him with a map showing the scene of the crime; maps were a popular feature of traditional whodunnits for many years, and Bellairs occasionally included them in his books, as he does here.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George Bellairs was a pseudonym masking the identity of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), one of the few bankers to write crime fiction, rather than feature in it as a murder victim or rascally suspect. Blundell started work at the age of fifteen with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, which merged with Martin's Bank in 1928; he remained with Martin's until his retirement in 1962. In 1941, he published his first novel, Littlejohn on Leave, a book which is now a great rarity.

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Verlag
British Library Publ.
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712356444
ISBN 13 
9780712356442
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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