num_pages: 207
description: Dr James Macintosh the Bishop of Greyle is a mysterious man; for a long time nobody even seems to know his last name. But things suddenly take a turn for the worse when his body is found completely emaciated and battered having being pushed face-first off the edge of a cliffInspector Littlejohn faces an incredibly peculiar case and must figure out how to explain the savage murder of a gentle Bishop? Perhaps he know too much about the secretive citizens of Cape Marvin the seaside resort and the place of his murder. Or did it have something to do with the strange family he had left behind in Medhope?Above all why was the Bishops body so undernourished that death by violence won out by only a few days over death by starvation?The Case of the Famished Parson was first published in 1949.Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is a shrewd yet courteous sleuth who splits his time between quaint English villages the scenic Isle of Man and French Provinces. With a sharp tongue and a dry sense of humour Littlejohn approaches his work with poise and confidence shifting through red-herrings and solving even the most perplexing of cases.One of the subtlest and wittiest practitioners of the simon-pure British detective story  The New York TimesMr Bellairs always gives good value  The Sunday TimesPure British detective story  The New York Times
language: English
title: The Case of the Famished Parson
publisher: Ipso Books