Blackthorn House
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Author | John Rhode |
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Language | English |
Series | Lancelot Priestley |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Geoffrey Bles (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | The Telephone Call |
Followed by | Up the Garden Path |
Blackthorn House is a 1949 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1][2] It is the forty eighth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.[3]
Synopsis
[edit]A man finds that the car he has recently bought is stolen property. Even more alarmingly there is a corpse with a body concealed in it, that links to the country mansion Blackthorn House.
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.
- Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4. Salem Press, 1988.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.