George Bellairs Books in Order

Miss Ethel Tither has spent years prying into everyone else's sins, so her death shocks the village less than the way she died. Littlejohn faces a crowd of suspects and a flood of small-town gossip.

This omnibus collects two early Littlejohn cases. One reopens an old killing everyone thought was solved, the other follows the murder of a dubious healer with more enemies than patients.

A chapel anniversary tea turns wild, then deadly, when Alderman Harbuttle's unexpected high spirits end in murder. The investigation exposes jealousies, resentments, and pious secrets in a tightly wound congregation.

A strange pattern of menace and rumor hangs over this early Littlejohn mystery. Superstition clouds the case, but human greed and fear do the real damage.

Slumlord Solomon Burt buys a faded manor with a haunted reputation and plans to carve it into flats. When he is murdered, Littlejohn must decide whether Harwood's dangers are supernatural or all too human.

The poisoning of Sir Gideon Ware brings Littlejohn to the seaside town of Westcombe. Beneath the respectable surface he finds politics, vanity, and personal grudges strong enough to kill.

During wartime fire-watching, factory boss Henry Worth is trapped in a gas-filled engine house and left to die. Littlejohn enters a family warped by inheritance, resentment, and old bad blood.

Frightened witnesses and jumpy suspects make this an unusually nervous Littlejohn case. The more people try to hide from danger, the more clearly murder begins to show.

A killing tied to Halfpenny Bridge draws Littlejohn into a knot of local feuds and half-told stories. He has to piece together the truth from a community that prefers rumor to evidence.

Morning worship is broken by murder in this standalone mystery written as Hilary Landon. Bellairs turns a quiet religious setting into a sharp, suspicious little world.

A death linked to the last train gives Littlejohn a tight timetable and a narrow field of suspects. He has to separate accident from murder before the trail goes cold.

Ronald Free arrives in a village to start a new job, becomes engaged, and is murdered the same night. Littlejohn finds a deceptively quiet community full of touchy egos and hidden tensions.

A supposedly mad spiv circles the edges of a baffling killing, but Littlejohn soon sees that madness may be a distraction. The real murderer hides among people who look far more respectable.

An odd clergyman stands near the center of this twisty village mystery, but he is far from the only suspect. Littlejohn digs through spite, money troubles, and small-community gossip to find the truth.

Written as Hilary Landon, this standalone mystery has theatrical flair and a sharp taste for human folly. A dramatic exit leaves behind a neat little tangle of suspicion and scheming.

The Isle of Man's senior judge is killed, and public grief soon gives way to private scandal. Littlejohn faces a case where island politics, reputation, and personal grudges are tightly bound together.

A canal death, a bleeding man at midnight mass, and a village haunted by an old legend give Littlejohn a wonderfully eerie puzzle. The real danger, though, comes from living suspects, not ghosts.

After William Blow's death leaves behind money questions, Penelope Blow falls from her bedroom window. Littlejohn steps into a family full of secrets, suspicions, and gathering menace.

What should have been a quiet holiday turns into a murder case in a place full of old grudges. Littlejohn has to work through local tensions before the trail disappears completely.

A supposedly foolproof plan depends on a recluse staying unseen, but a runaway bank clerk throws everything into confusion. Littlejohn and Cromwell untangle impersonation, forgery, embezzlement, and murder.

Harry Dodd leaves the pub with a knife wound and no one realizes how bad it is until too late. Littlejohn's inquiry reveals that the likable victim had been caught in bitter family ambitions and ugly secrets.

Ned Bunn was not loved, but his murder on the doorstep of his shop still shocks Enderby. Littlejohn uncovers damaging truths about the dead man and his family as the case widens.

A scallop boat dredges up a body from Manx waters, tied down with stones. Littlejohn has to weigh gossip, greed, and eerie local legends to solve the killing of the widely disliked Cedric Levis.

Littlejohn's holiday on the Riviera ends when an English tourist dies after a stabbing in Cannes. A coach party from the same town gives him a closed circle of suspects, and nearly all of them disliked the victim.

A ferry runs aground on a sandbank, its pilot missing from the bridge. When his stabbed body is found under the pier, Littlejohn and Cromwell enter a small-town case full of lies and wartime shadows.

After a week missing, former harbourmaster Finlo Crennell is found wandering London with no memory of what happened. Back on the Isle of Man he is murdered, and Littlejohn soon links his death to another shooting on the moors.

A suspicious death in the high country of Provence draws Littlejohn into a quiet but dangerous web of secrecy. Bellairs uses the French setting to give this puzzle an especially sharp atmosphere.

Doctor Beharrell is found murdered in a secret room at his house in Upper Square, after Littlejohn receives a warning before the body is discovered. The case uncovers old snobberies, family strain, and buried madness.

Carnival season on the Isle of Man turns grim when a killing interrupts the festivities. Littlejohn has to look past the public fun to the private resentments underneath.

Each new assumption in this case proves unreliable, and Littlejohn has to start again more than once. The result is a twisty investigation where blunders, bad judgment, and murder are tightly linked.

When antique hunter Samuel Cheever disappears in France, the mystery seems to go cold, until bones are found in the Camargue. Littlejohn and Cromwell face French police, odd collectors, and another death.

A violent ringing church bell draws attention to the body of Sir Martin Skollick in the Manx curraghs. Littlejohn returns to the island to sift through enemies, misdeeds, and a deeply troubled village.

One terrifying night leaves a body behind and a community on edge. Littlejohn must sort panic, rumor, and deliberate lies before the darkness covers a second crime.

The glamour of a film shoot reaches the Isle of Man, then turns sour when movie star Hal Vale is found dead in his hotel room. Littlejohn follows the case from celebrity scandal to the French Riviera.

A dead man in the Dumb River seems to be the end of a sad little life. Littlejohn soon finds that the victim's last trip, and the people around him, tell a far messier story.

James Teasdale, an unlucky shopkeeper turned travelling salesman, is found dead in the flooded Dumb River. Littlejohn traces his final journey and uncovers the scandalous company he was keeping.

Mrs. Jump sees a dead body in July Street, only for it to vanish before she can report it. Littlejohn follows the mystery from a shabby London street to France, through crooks, eccentrics, and hidden connections.

An elderly island gentleman is stabbed in an alley, and public anger quickly settles on a local boy. Littlejohn is called to the Isle of Man to see whether the obvious answer is the wrong one.

Waldo Keelagher finds his uncle dead in the wasteland near Cannes, then loses both car and corpse outside the police station. Littlejohn traces the case back to England and into shaky financial dealings.

A security officer is murdered during a police conference in Geneva, and the body turns up in a car hired by Littlejohn. The investigation stretches from Switzerland to London and threatens to become a political disaster.

An explosion kills three directors at a failing joinery firm in a Surrey new town. Littlejohn and Cromwell pick through debts, family feuds, and bitter local grievances to find who turned business trouble into mass murder.

What first seems like bad luck quickly proves far more deliberate. Littlejohn follows a chain of shifting relationships and concealed motives in a case where chance is the killer's best disguise.

An elderly woman dies in the near-deserted village of Plumpton Bois and leaves her house to a surprised relative, who is then murdered in the cellar. Littlejohn finds a missing fortune, a hidden intruder, and a village full of secrets.

A bank manager vanishes with cash and is written off as a fugitive, until his body turns up years later in an old tomb. Littlejohn and Cromwell reopen the cold case and find the past has not gone quiet.

A bleak setting and a suspicious death give Littlejohn one of his most atmospheric cases. As he pushes past silence and evasion, the lonely surface of the crime gives way to something far more tangled.

A serious illness, a vulnerable traveler, and a sudden death set this late Bellairs mystery in motion. Littlejohn follows the trail through chance meetings and hidden motives to see who planned the journey's end.

An apparently perfect alibi leaves Littlejohn with a murder he cannot easily place on anyone. To crack it, he has to work backward through timing, gossip, and the small mistakes killers make under pressure.

A baffling killing throws an uneasy community into confusion and fear. Littlejohn keeps his head while odd behavior, false leads, and mounting suspicion threaten to push the case off the rails.

When a powerful electronics tycoon dies, Littlejohn has to decide whether the death was natural or carefully helped along. Money, inheritance, and business rivalry give plenty of people a reason to lie.

A death tied to the name Pomeroy sends Littlejohn into a maze of money worries, family friction, and misleading appearances. What looks straightforward soon proves much harder to pin down.

Fresh out of prison, sailor Joss Varran is found dead in a ditch beside his cottage in the Manx marshes. Littlejohn follows the trail into his dangerous past and the criminal ties he could not escape.

The youngest son of the Todd family is found murdered on his boat, and his influential relatives want the scandal kept quiet. Littlejohn and a new recruit untangle jealousy, betrayal, and bitter family loyalties.

Walking the dog on a wet night, Littlejohn finds the body of Charles Blunt, a gentleman burglar he once knew. The case leads him into rich households, tangled affairs, and old scandals that refuse to stay buried.

A retired coroner living in a crumbling, supposedly haunted manor wants Littlejohn to take a post there after retirement. Before he can make the offer, he is battered to death and the old house grows even stranger.

While holidaying in the south of France, Littlejohn is pulled into the murder of an English tour guide shot on the road to Sospel. Stranded travelers, a blamed bus driver, and a second crime complicate the case.

Leeman Popple, once mayor and later a disgraced financier and antique dealer, is found shot in a canal. Littlejohn and Cromwell take charge in a town already shadowed by police scandal.

Bellairs's final mystery turns an apparently simple death into a deeper puzzle. As the investigation grows, old resentments and carefully guarded local secrets begin to surface.