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Five titles in the Inspector Littlejohn series by George Bellairs (pen name for Harold Blundell) are on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about one more day before going up to $2.99.

Bellairs was a profilic writer, and produced a huge number of titles in the Littlejohn series from the 1940's to the 1980's. These five seem to be from the late 50's and early 60's.

Death Treads Softly: http://www.amazon.com/Treads-Softly-...dp/B00XUJL6V0/

Spoiler:

Set in the haunting and picturesque Isle of Man, Finlo Crennell, ex-harbourmaster of Castletown, has been missing for a week before he is found by the police wandering in London, suffering from loss of memory. He is escorted back to the Island by Chief Inspector Littlejohn, of Scotland Yard, but is unable to throw any light on how he came to be in London or what he has been doing. Within twenty-four hours, Crennell is found murdered - shot through the head. Littlejohn is called in to investigate not only Crennell's murder, but also that of Charles Cribbin, a bankrupt farmer, whose body is found in a desolate ruined house on the moors. This all provides the Chief Inspector with a most baffling case.

Corpse At The Carnival: http://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Carniva...dp/B00XUJKQE8/

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In the wake of the carnival crowd, as it swept down the promenade, they found - with a knife-thrust in his back - the body of an elderly man, the man they all knew as Uncle Fred. And that was about all they did know about him. But somebody meant to kill him. Superintendent Littlejohn was flying in on the plane from Dublin when the blow was struck, and the local C.I.D. wasted no time in engaging his unofficial help. Under Littlejohn's questioning layer after layer of the strange life of Uncle Fred gradually peeled away.

Death Of A Tin God: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Mystery-...dp/B00XUJK88M/

Spoiler:

Superintendent Little John of Scotland Yard becomes involved in the murder of a famous film-star on location on the Isle of Man. The case not only concerns life in the fantastic atmosphere of the film world, but of high finance and the tycoons who manipulate it, as well. The threads of this strange affair are intentional and stretch from Dublin to London and thence to the Riviera, where Littlejohn again co-operates with his old friend, inspector Dorange, of the Surété at Nice. They find themselves within an inch of death before they finally wind-up the case.

The Cursing Stones Murder: http://www.amazon.com/Cursing-Stones...dp/B00XUJKPQM/

Spoiler:

While scallop dredging off the Isle of Man, the Manx Shearwater drags up the body of Cedric Levis, a philanderer with an unsavoury reputation. Chief Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is invited by his old friend Archdeacon Kinrade to spend a holiday on the Island with him to investigate unofficially the occurrences at Cursing Stones. In collaboration with the local police, he does so, and finds the case to be the strangest he has ever been called upon to solve.

The Tormentors: http://www.amazon.com/Tormentors-Mys...dp/B00XUIJ91A/

Spoiler:

A teddy-boy is arrested after violently robbing an old man of his wallet; the victim is found stabbed in an alley in Douglas. The Manx police, anxious that the case shall not rest on circumstantial evidence alone, enlist the help of Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, who is staying at Grenaby with his old friend the Archdeacon of Man. The murdered man is a prominent figure in Manx life and a member of an old and distinguished family, the Croakes, of Balla-croake. The investigation moves rapidly from the teddy-boy shouting his innocence, to a pub called the Bishop's Arms, In Douglas, which harbours some shady characters. Thence to the old mansion of Ballacroake, with its queer group of family occupants, a ghost, burglars, and a sad story of hopeless love. At times, the case seems like an insoluble mix-up but eventually the Superintendent finds the answer and the culprit is properly dealt with.