George Bellairs

The pen name of Harold Blundell, a British detective novelist best known for his series featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Littlejohn. Many of his novels are set on the Isle of Man.
He also wrote four books using the pseudonym Hilary Landon.

Harold Blundell was a Manchester banker with close connections with the University of Manchester. He was born in Lancashire and married Gwladys Mabel Roberts in 1930. In the late 1950s he moved to the Isle of Man and became a full-time writer.