title: Corpses in Enderby (An Inspector Littlejohn Mystery)
author:  George Bellairs 
description: George Bellairs: a bank manager, a talented crime author, part time journalist and Francophile. His detective stories, written in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s, combine wicked crimes and classic police procedurals, set in small British communities. Best known for his Detective Littlejohn stories, he is celebrated as one Britains crime classic greats.
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  # Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  A Dark Blue Line
  
  
  
  
  
  “Hold still, Mr. Endersby!”
  
  
  
  
  
  Inspector Owen Endersby pulled in his stomach. His wife Harriet gave him
  another gentle punch. “Breathe in,” she scolded, and pushed the final button
  of his waistcoat into its hole.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Now, hurry, dear one, and take this tin of chestnuts with you.”
  
  
  
  
  
  The inspector kissed his wife on her cheek. He pulled on his canvas coat and
  clumped down the stairs from their three-room flat at Number Six Cursitor
  Street, flung open the street door, and balked at the shrouded buildings
  before him. A chill morning mist muffled London’s parish church bells,
  striking seven times to remind the city that its’ workday was about to begin.
  
  
  
  
  
  Along the glistening cobbles of Drury Lane, Inspector Endersby’s hired hansom
  cab rushed its way toward the St. Giles Workhouse. Endersby huddled under the
  hansom’s half roof to avoid the drizzle, his rotund figure of fifty-one years
  sporting his favorite plum-coloured waistcoat, his bro