Common Sense Is All You Need
| Author | J.J. Connington |
|---|---|
| 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. 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. Although published during the postwar era. it is set during the Second World War with German bombing raids taking place.