Blackthorn House
 First edition (US) | |
| Author | John Rhode |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Lancelot Priestley |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Geoffrey Bles (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1949 |
| Media type | |
| 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[]
A man finds that the car he has recently been 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[]
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.
- 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.
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- 1949 British novels
- Novels by Cecil Street
- British crime novels
- British mystery novels
- British detective novels
- Geoffrey Bles books
- Novels set in England
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