# A Minor Operation > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Minor_Operation > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Minor_Operation.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Minor_Operation > Source revision: 1354755286 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|1937 novel}} {{infobox book | name =A Minor Operation | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:A Minor Operation.jpg | caption = American edition | author = [J.J. Connington](/source/Alfred_Walter_Stewart) | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = [Sir Clinton Driffield](/source/Sir_Clinton_Driffield) | genre = Detective | publisher =[Hodder and Stoughton](/source/Hodder_and_Stoughton) | release_date = 1937 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = [In Whose Dim Shadow](/source/In_Whose_Dim_Shadow) | followed_by = [Truth Comes Limping](/source/Truth_Comes_Limping) }} '''''A Minor Operation''''' is a 1937 British [detective novel](/source/detective_novel) by the British author [Alfred Walter Stewart](/source/Alfred_Walter_Stewart), published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.Murphy p.152Evans p.197 It is the eleventh in a series of novels featuring the [Golden Age Detective](/source/Golden_Age_of_Detective_Fiction) [Chief Constable](/source/Chief_Constable) [Sir Clinton Driffield](/source/Sir_Clinton_Driffield) and was published by [Hodder and Stoughton](/source/Hodder_and_Stoughton) in London and [Little, Brown and Company](/source/Little%2C_Brown_and_Company) in the United States.Reilly p.347 In a ''[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)'' review Isaac Anderson noted Sir Clinton as being rare among Chief Constables in British mystery stories for his competence noting "If you have not previously met him in Mr. Connington’s other novels, this is a good time to make his acquaintance, for in this book you will see him at his best".''Book Review Digest, Volume 33''. H.W. Wilson Company, 1938. p.935 ==Synopsis== The police are called to the house of Mrs. Deerhurst after she has vanished and a pool of blood of is found on the floor. Shortly afterwards the body of her estranged husband, a [fraudster](/source/fraudster) responsible for the financial ruination of her late father's firm, is found shortly after he was released from prison. The dead man had numerous enemies who might have gone so far to kill him, but the most obvious candidates are his wife and her cousin who also served prison time for the fraud. Yet the strange disappearance of Mrs. Deerhurst seems to hold the real clue of the case. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography== * Evans, Curtis. ''Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920–1961''. McFarland, 2014. * Hubin, Allen J. ''Crime Fiction, 1749–1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography''. Garland Publishing, 1984. *Murphy, Bruce F. ''The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery''. Springer, 1999. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Minor Operation}} Category:1937 British novels Category:1937 English-language novels Category:British mystery novels Category:Novels by Alfred Walter Stewart Category:Novels set in England Category:British detective novels Category:Hodder & Stoughton books Category:1930s mystery novels {{1930s-mystery-novel-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [A Minor Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Minor_Operation) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Minor_Operation?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.