Project Gutenberg 2025-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 315 Dilnot, George 1883 1951 The lazy detective $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Company, $c1927. Tim Miller, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Lazy Detective" by George Dilnot is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Divisional Detective Inspector Harry Labar, whose idleness earns him the reputation of being lazy among his peers at Scotland Yard. He gets embroiled in a complex case involving a high-profile jewel heist linked to the enigmatic crime organizer Larry Hughes, while also navigating the complications of his own lethargy and the pressures from his superiors. At the start of the novel, Inspector Labar faces discontent from his Chief Constable regarding the rising crime rates in his division. Labar's tenuous position is further complicated when he receives an unexpected bribe in the form of a hundred-pound note handed to him by a mysterious woman in a car. As he begins to investigate the recent burglary at the residence of millionaire Solly Gertstein, it becomes evident that he is dealing with skilled criminals. The narrative introduces suspenseful elements, including potential connections to Hughes and his dubious associates, and hints at a deeper personal entanglement involving Labar and Miss Penelope Noelson, Gertstein’s companion, as they all navigate the disconcerting world of crime and deception. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/lazydetective00diln/mode/2up 20241115124114dilnot 1927 US Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Jewelry theft -- Fiction Criminals -- Fiction Police -- England -- London -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 437858 2025-07-30T03:51:38.865645 text/html 412637 2025-03-01T08:50:14 text/html 461600 2025-07-30T03:51:45.410647 application/epub+zip 461598 2025-07-30T03:51:40.509644 application/epub+zip 381740 2025-07-30T03:51:39.525636 application/epub+zip 1039430 2025-07-30T03:51:49.564580 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1010868 2025-07-30T03:51:44.772622 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 415988 2025-07-30T03:51:38.130622 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 396115 2025-03-01T08:50:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16754 2025-07-30T03:51:49.871564 application/rdf+xml 27325 2025-07-30T03:51:39.924611 image/jpeg 4580 2025-07-30T03:51:39.721613 image/jpeg 1919419 2025-07-30T03:51:38.920655 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia