A Knife for Harry Dodd - Paperback

by George Bellairs (Author)

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 pub--but it's not because he's schnockered. He's actually been stabbed. Unfortunately, no one realizes it until it's too late. Who would want to kill such a well-liked fellow? Inspector Littlejohn is called in, and his investigation reveals a recent woeful turn in Dodd's life, the ambitious family that cast him out, and a cesspit of jealousy, greed, and tawdry secrets. Then another body turns up, and another . . .

Praise for the Inspector Littlejohn mysteries

"Solid and ingenious." --The New York Times

"Littlejohn achieves his goal spectacularly and successfully." --Kirkus Reviews

"When you get a George Bellairs story you get something worth reading." --Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch

Author Biography

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).