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The author was born in 1915
and his main series character was Inspector George Judd.
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First Page of Smithfield Slayer
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GEORGE JUDD was pleased with himself.
He sat squarely at the plain oak table that served as his desk in an office as bare as a prison cell. He stretched out his arm and pointed a finger at his senior Detective Sergeant, who stood before him.
"You. .."
"Your country needs you ..." Berger said.
Judd looked like the First World War poster of Kitchener with his black hearthrug moustache and bullet head. " You," he repeated, "should be trying to do my job."
"I can just imagine what you'd say if I started giving the orders...."
Judd lowered his hand, genuinely astonished. "Is that what you think?"
"You hand out the jobs like a man with no arms."
"You're under-worked? "
"I didn't say that, sir. Somebody said on the radio this morning the average C.I.D. officer works fourteen hours a day. No. What I was trying to say was, I can't tread on your heels because you don't delegate enough to me. I don't have enough decisions to make."
"I see." Judd studied John Berger as if he did not see him every day. Berger was big, like all City policemen |