Murder in Blue

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CLASSIC FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRIME FICTION, 2ND IN THE SERIES OF REISSUED DETECTIVE THRILLERS.

John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman one evening while taking a stroll in a rainstorm. The policeman's overturned bicycle is what first catches Rutherford's eye. Then he sees Officer Johnson's body sprawled on the sodden ground of Phantom Coppice. Rutherford takes Johnson's bike and pedals to rural Paulsfield police station, two miles away, to report the crime. There he finds Sgt. Martin who initiates calls to a doctor, a photographer and Inspector Charlton.

But it is not these two lead detectives who are the most interesting characters of the book. That honour goes to 19 year-old George Stubbings, assistant at \"Voslivres,\" the bookshop Rutherford owns. George is a detective story addict and he is keen on solving the various mysteries surrounding Johnson's violent death. He is both ingenuous in dealing with Rutherford and ingenious in his precocious observations about the apparent murder.

Murder in Blue is the second of Galileo's Clifford Witting's re-issued classic detective thrillers.

AUTHOR:
Clifford Witting (1907-68) was an English writer. He was educated at Eltham College London and served in the Royal Artillery and the Ordinance Corps during WW2. He married Ellen Marjorie Steward in 1934 and worked as a clerk in Lloyds bank from 1924 to 1942. His series characters were Sergeant (later Inspector) Peter Bradfield and Inspector Harry Charlton.

ISBN: 9781912916504
Author: WITTING, CLIFFORD
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/05/2022
RRP: $29.99
Pages: 276
Dimension: 197mm X 129mm
Imprint: Galileo Publishers