George Bellairs

Death on the Last Train (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 is travelling to an assignment, exhausted after an arduous journey of delayed connections, when he catches the last train. A murder occurs in his carriage, putting on hold any other plans he may have had. The local police, out of their depth, commandeer the detective to help them solve the case.

Delving into unrequited love, betrayal, and poison pen letters, Littlejohn must pick apart a tangle of grudges. Many men and women seem primed with motives, but which of them has it in them to kill?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448214457
• Artikelnr.: 41152625

Autorenporträt

George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), an English crime author best known for the creation of Detective-Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Characters 1. The Last Train 2. The Chief Constable Feels Guilty 3. The
Back of Beyond 4. The Off-Licence 5. The Day of the Inquest 6. Four Men and
a Girl 7. The Man who Took to Drink 8. Brewerton Camp 9. Startling
Developments 10. The Man who Played the Trombone 11. The Shouting Man 12.
The Old Man's Darling 13. The Sorrows of Lambert Hiss 14. Union Club 15.
The Last Bus 16. Swan Song 17. The Man with a Bad Heart 18. Breaking Point
19. Murder for Nothing 20. A Narrow Shave A Note on the Author