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| Author | J.J. Connington |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Jack-in-the-Box |
Common Sense Is All You Need is a 1947 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] [2] [3] It was his last novel, published by Hodder and Stoughton the year of his death, and featured his regular character Sir Clinton Driffield. It was the seventeenth in a series of novels featuring Driffield, a Chief Constable of a rural English county, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[4] Although published during the postwar era. it is set during the Second World War with German bombing raids taking place.