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    The Case of the Famished Parson
    The Case of the Famished Parson
    The Case of the Famished Parson
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    The Case of the Famished Parson

    Written by George Bellairs

    Narrated by Antony Ferguson

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    About this audiobook

    Dr. James Macintosh, the Bishop of Greyle, was a mysterious man. For a long time, nobody even knew his last name . . . until his body is found emaciated and battered having been pushed face-first off the edge of a cliff.

    Inspector Littlejohn faces an incredibly peculiar case. How to explain the savage murder of a gentle Bishop? Did he know too much about the secretive citizens of Cape Marvin? Or did it have something to do with the strange family he left behind in Medhope?

    Above all, why was the Bishop's body so undernourished that death by violence won out by only a few days over death by starvation?

    About Inspector Littlejohn

    Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is a shrewd yet courteous sleuth who splits his time between quaint English villages, the scenic Isle of Man, and French Provinces. With a sharp tongue and a dry sense of humor, Littlejohn approaches his work with poise and confidence, shifting through red-herrings and solving even the most perplexing of cases.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781541401921
    The Case of the Famished Parson
    Author

    George Bellairs

    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).

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    • 3/5
      While on holiday with his wife Inspector Littlejohn is called on to help solve the death of Dr. James Macintosh, the Bishop of Greyle, the famished parson.
      A well-written story and a decent mystery.
      A NetGalley Book
    • 3/5
      I was mildly amused, and maybe, if I hadn't dragged out the reading over a couple of weeks, I would have enjoyed it more. As it was I was confused by the number of characters--I couldn't keep them straight. Bellairs' stylistic quirk of ending many sentences with ellipses grated a bit too. And fundamentally the solution wasn't that interesting to me.
    • 3/5
      The Famished Parson of the title is a bishop who is found dead, caught in the undergrowth, suspended part way down a cliff. An exhausted Inspector Littlejohn is on holiday with his wife in the nearby seaside town. He is roped in to the investigation by the local police, much to the dismay of his wife. The plot is intricate, and several interesting characters emerge, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have because of the way the author handled speech. There were times when there were as many as 5 or 6 characters talking together, without any clues as to which of them was speaking. I found this frustrating and irritating, and was close to giving up on the book. i did get to the end, and there was a satisfactory conclusion, but it has rather put me off this author.