Littlejohn is summoned back to the Isle of Man when a reverend confesses to murder... The curraghs in the Isle of Man are, as a rule, eerily silent after dark, but one black night in April the silence is shattered by a loud explosion followed by violent ringing of the church bell. The Vicar, Sullivan Lee, is discovered praying beside the murdered body of Sir Martin Skollick, the squire of Myrescogh a sporting gun, with both barrels fired, lies nearby.
The case seems open and shut, but Littlejohn wades through the murdered man's past misdeeds, his enemies, and his lovers... and all was not as it seemed when the church bell tolled across the curraghs that fateful night.
Toll the Bell for Murder is the fifteenth title in Agora's Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries.
Reviews
'One of the subtlest and wittiest practitioners of the simon-pure British detective story' - The New York Times
'Mr Bellairs always gives good value' - The Sunday Times
'Pure British detective story' - The New York Times
It is quite leisurely paced and some will be frustrated by the focus drifting away from the investigation
Read my full review at Mysteries Ahoy!