Bodies in a Bookshop | |
Author: | Ruthven Todd |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Series: | Professor John Stubbs |
Genre: | Mystery |
Publisher: | John Westhouse |
Release Date: | 1946 |
Media Type: | |
Pages: | 178 |
Preceded By: | Take Thee a Sharp Knife |
Followed By: | Death for Madame |
Bodies in a Bookshop is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British author Ruthven Todd, written under the pen name of R.T. Campbell.[1] It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs.[2]
In a bookshop in a bohemian quarter just off the Tottenham Court Road a colleague of Stubbs encounters two dead men in a backroom. Investigating along with Chief Inspector Bishop of Scotland Yard, Stubbs uncovers a world of blackmail and pornographic books.