Bodies in a Bookshop explained

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:Print
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]

Synopsis

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Royle p.301
  2. Hanson p.58