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It is 1940 and Detective Inspector Littlejohn is leaving London, and the Blitz, behind and travelling on Christmas Eve to the village of Hatterworth. His wife had been slightly injured in the bombing and had relocated to stay with a friend, but it is, you feel, unlikely that Littlejohn will find rest and recreation, as he stumbles through the blackout and boards trains, unsure of where they are headed.
Indeed, although Christmas is pleasant, soon there is a case for Littlejohn to investigate. A s ...more
Indeed, although Christmas is pleasant, soon there is a case for Littlejohn to investigate. A s ...more
He forgot to include a plot.
An enjoyable war-time whodunnit from the now republished prolific author of a series of Inspector Littlejohn crime fiction novels. Wry and humorous, almost farcical, well-observed characters in a Lancashire town.
In the absence of a GR blurb, an earlier reviewer said:
‘Inspector Littlejohn is spending a wartime Christmas (1940) in a little village in the Pennines, which means he's on hand when the Home Guard, digging a trench, find the body of a man last seen 23 years previously. Enoch Sykes was a ...more
In the absence of a GR blurb, an earlier reviewer said:
‘Inspector Littlejohn is spending a wartime Christmas (1940) in a little village in the Pennines, which means he's on hand when the Home Guard, digging a trench, find the body of a man last seen 23 years previously. Enoch Sykes was a ...more
This was great.
It is set during the Second World War and features Chief Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard as the protagonist.
The story takes place at Christmas time in a small village on the Yorkshire Moors where Littlejohn has gone to spend the holidays.
Littlejohn isn’t flashy in the style of Sherlock Holmes, able to dazzles readers with his brilliant deductions. Instead he gathers evidence, sifts through it, looks for patterns, takes a wrong turn or two, before reaching a conclusion that ...more
It is set during the Second World War and features Chief Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard as the protagonist.
The story takes place at Christmas time in a small village on the Yorkshire Moors where Littlejohn has gone to spend the holidays.
Littlejohn isn’t flashy in the style of Sherlock Holmes, able to dazzles readers with his brilliant deductions. Instead he gathers evidence, sifts through it, looks for patterns, takes a wrong turn or two, before reaching a conclusion that ...more
Littlejohn, along with his wife, spends Christmas in the village of Hatterworth, where a skeleton of somebody who was a purported murderer was dug up on the moors. Evidence shows that the supposed murderer was killed same time as the earlier victim, so Littlejohn and company starts to look for the real murderer from the cast from the past. Solid writing with good depiction of the village life but plotwise, nothing remarkable.
