Truth Comes Limping
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Author | J.J. Connington |
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Language | English |
Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1938 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | A Minor Operation |
Followed by | For Murder Will Speak |
Truth Comes Limping is a 1938 mystery detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1][2][3] It is the twelfth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, the Chief Constable of a rural English county. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.[4]
Synopsis
In the village of Abbots Norton not far from the county town of Ambledown a corpse is discovered on a lovers lane one dark night by a courting couple. A poacher is discovered behaving suspiciously around the area, but clues seem to suggest a connection with the wealthy landowners who control the country estate next to where the murder took place. The dead man proves to be a hack writer who after years of struggle has seemed to hit on a financial bonanza by writing a biography of a recently deceased novelist and scoundrel, which he appears to have used as the basis for blackmailing those implicated in the famous man's diaries.
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