num_pages: 160
description: When botanist Max Boyle ventures into a little shop around the corner from London's Tottenham Court Road he's delighted by the bibliophile treasures he finds. But he's less charmed by the two corpses he stumbles upon in a back room. Boyle summons The Bishop Chief Inspector Reginald F. Bishop of Scotland Yard who in turn calls in Professor John Stubbs a rotund amateur criminologist. The pipe-smoking beer-drinking professor the skeptical world-weary Bishop and the protesting Boyle  who would rather be basking in the sun on the Isles of Scilly  soon discover a web of skulduggery and dark deeds. Fueled as much by the friction between their personalities as their enthusiasm the crime-solving trio threads a maze through the city's book and print emporia grappling with a puzzle likely to baffle even the most astute armchair detectives.Bodies in a Bookshop is loaded with amusing sallies of wit quaint and pungent observations and droll characters. Crisp dialogue keeps the plot moving at top speed. A treat for mystery lovers and those who appreciate a rummage through musty bookshops this novel is as exuberantly readable as it was upon its original publication in 1946.
language: English
title: Bodies in a Bookshop
publisher: Dover