1932 novel
Dead Men at the Folly is a 1932 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the thirteenth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead.[2]
Synopsis
A dead body found at the foot of a large folly draws the attention of Hanslet Scotland Yard and with him Doctor Priestley.
References
- ^ Evans p.120
- ^ Reilly p.1257
Bibliography
- 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.
- Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
