Truth Comes Limping is a 1938 mystery detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J.

[1][2][3] It is the twelfth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, the Chief Constable of a rural English county.

[4] In the village of Abbots Norton not far from the county town of Ambledown a corpse is discovered on a lovers lane one dark night by a courting couple.

A poacher is discovered behaving suspiciously around the area, but clues seem to suggest a connection with the wealthy landowners who control the country estate next to where the murder took place.

The dead man proves to be a hack writer who after years of struggle has seemed to hit on a financial bonanza by writing a biography of a recently deceased novelist and scoundrel, which he appears to have used as the basis for blackmailing those implicated in the famous man's diaries.