Bodies in a Bookshop

1946 novel

Bodies in a Bookshop

First edition

Author| Ruthven Todd
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Series| Professor John Stubbs
Genre| Mystery
Publisher| John Westhouse

Publication date

| 1946
Media type| Print
Pages| 178
Preceded by| Take Thee a Sharp Knife
Followed by| Death for Madame

Bodies in a Bookshop is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British author Ruthven Todd, written under the pen name of R.T. Campbell.[1] It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs.[2]

## Synopsis[edit]

In a bookshop in a bohemian quarter just off the Tottenham Court Road a colleague of Stubbs encounters two dead men in a backroom. Investigating along with Chief Inspector Bishop of Scotland Yard, Stubbs uncovers a world of blackmail and pornographic books.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Royle p.301
2. ^ Hanson p.58

## Bibliography[edit]

* Hanson, Gillian Mary. City and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery. McFarland, 2015.
* Main, Peter. A Fervent Mind: The Life of Ruthven Todd. Lomax Press, 2018.
* Royle, Trevor. The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan, 1983.

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