1936 novel
Bury Him Darkly is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.[1] It was the fourth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole.[2] Along with the following Poole novel, Lonely Magdalen, it marked a shift towards more realistic police procedurals that has been described as pioneering.[3] Superintendent Fraser, who appeared in Wade's fist novel The Verdict of You All, also appears as one of the characters.
Synopsis
A robbery at a jewellers in Bond Street goes wrong, leaving a nightwatchman dead. Police follow up various lines of inquiry.
References
- ^ Reilly p.1422
- ^ Herbert p.205
- ^ Evans p.34
Bibliography
- Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
