{{Short description|1938 novel}} {{infobox book | name =Truth Comes Limping | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:Truth Comes Limping.jpg | caption = | author = J.J. Connington | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Sir Clinton Driffield | genre = Detective | publisher =Hodder and Stoughton | release_date = 1938 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = A Minor Operation | followed_by = For Murder Will Speak }} '''''Truth Comes Limping''''' is a 1938 mystery detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.<ref>Murphy p.152</ref><ref>Evans p.215</ref><ref>Carter p.187</ref> 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.<ref>Reilly p.347</ref>
==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.
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==Bibliography== * Carter, Ian. ''Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity''. Manchester University Press, 2001. * 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.
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