Dead Men at the Folly
Appearance
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Author | John Rhode |
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Language | English |
Series | Lancelot Priestley |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1932 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Mystery at Greycombe Farm |
Followed by | The Motor Rally Mystery |
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
[edit]A dead body found at the foot of a large folly draws the attention of Hanslet Scotland Yard and with him Doctor Priestley.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.