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George Bellairs

19 April 1902 - 18 April 1982

The pen name of Harold Blundell, a British detective novelist.
Harold Blundell was a prominent banker and philanthropist from Manchester with close connections to the University of Manchester. He was born in Lancashire and married Gwladys Mabel Roberts in 1930.
Over a span of forty years, Blundell as Bellairs wrote over fifty novels in his spare time. He was best known for his popular series featuring gruff, pipe-smoking Detective Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. His books are set at a time when the real life British Scotland Yard would send their most brilliant of sleuths out to the rest of the country to solve their most insolvable of murders.
In the late 1950s he moved to the Isle of Man and became a full-time writer. Many of his novels are set on the Isle of Man.
He also wrote four books using the pseudonym Hilary Landon.

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Subjects
Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, England, fiction, mystery, Fiction, Fiction, crime, Inspector Littlejohn (fictitious character), Chief Inspector Littlejohn (fictitious person), English literature, Golden Age mystery, Investigation, Murder, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Quacks and quackery, Textile workers, Villages
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England, France, Norfolk
People
Detective Inspector Thomas Littlejohn (fictitious character), Inspector Thomas Littlejohn (fictitious character), Superintendent Littlejohn (fictitious character)
Time
1940s, 1950s

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  • Harold Blundell
  • Hilary Landon

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July 26, 2023 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Edited without comment.
July 26, 2023 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Added new photo
July 18, 2022 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Added birth and death dates
July 18, 2022 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Added wikidata, link
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import