Truth Comes Limping

Truth Comes Limping is a 1938 mystery detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington. It is the twelfth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir [Clinton Driffield], the Chief Constable of a rural English county. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.

Synopsis

In the village of Abbots Norton not far from the county town of Ambledown a corpse is discovered on a lovers lane one dark night by a courting couple. A poacher is discovered behaving suspiciously around the area, but clues seem to suggest a connection with the wealthy landowners who control the country estate next to where the murder took place. The dead man proves to be a hack writer who after years of struggle has seemed to hit on a financial bonanza by writing a biography of a recently deceased novelist and scoundrel, which he appears to have used as the basis for blackmailing those implicated in the famous man's diaries.