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  • MediaDB / «And the dead will rise. Death of a Witch Doctor. Curiosity kills" George Bellairs: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2019 / Three most interesting cases of Inspector Thomas Littlejohn! "And the dead shall rise" 1942. While digging a bomb shelter, a terrible discovery was made: a human skeleton. Inspector Littlejohn finds out that these remains belong to a local guy. He was believed to have gone on the run after the murder of a young factory worker that rocked the village twenty years ago. Did someone commit lynching of a criminal? Or, on the contrary, did a double murder occur, for which they rushed to blame the second victim? How to figure it out if all the evidence has long been lost, and most of the witnesses are dead?.. “The Death of a Witch Doctor” The fame of Nathaniel Wall from the village of Stolden, who knew how to raise the most seriously ill patients with herbs and massage, thundered throughout Norfolk. And therefore, when he was found brutally murdered in his own home, the local police did not hesitate to turn to Scotland Yard for help. But who dared to raise a hand against a beloved and respected person who did nothing but good? In search of the killer, Inspector Littlejohn will have to pull out many skeletons from the closets of the village inhabitants... “Curiosity kills” To say that Miss Ethel Teeder was not very popular in the village of Hilary Magna is to greatly understate how much the villagers hated this corrosive person who loved to poke her nose into other people's affairs and sniff out secrets. So now that Miss Teeder's body has been found in a cesspool, Inspector Littlejohn, who is leading the investigation, has no shortage of suspects. Quite the contrary, it will not be easy for him to find the killer among the victim’s many enemies.…