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  • Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap

    by John Rhode ...
    During an overnight thousand mile motor rally an accident to one of the cars leads to the death of the two occupants. The local police are far from convinced that everything is above board and call in Scotland Yard. Inspector Hanslet leads the case but the real work is done by the criminologist Priestley, who retraces the entire journey of care in order to solve the mystery. ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Suspect

    by John Rhode ...
    The Mysterious Suspect, first published in 1953 (and also known by the title By Registered Post), is part of the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley. Author John Rhode, a pen name of Cecil Street (1884-1964), was a prolific writer of mostly detective novels, publishing more than 140 books between 1924 and 1961.In The Mysterious Suspect, wealthy industrialist Peter ... Read more

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  • Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap

    by John Rhode ...
    Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap, first published in 1933 (and also known by the title The Motor Rally Mystery), is part of the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley. Author John Rhode, a pen name of Cecil Street (1884-1964), was a prolific writer of mostly detective novels, publishing more than 140 books between 1924 and 1961.From the dustjacket: The death of Lessingham and his ... Read more

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  • The John Rhode Detective Library. Dr. Priestley Mysteries (16 Books). Illustrated

    The Fatal Pool, Death Takes a Partner, Licensed for Murder, Murder at Derivale, The Paddington Mystery and Others

    by John Rhode ...
    The John Rhode Detective Library brings together sixteen of the most compelling and ingeniously plotted mysteries featuring Dr. Lancelot Priestley, one of the most distinctive sleuths of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Created by Cecil John Charles Street, writing as John Rhode, Dr. Priestley is a logician, a scientist, and an armchair detective whose calm reasoning and analytical mind ... Read more

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  • The Fatal Garden

    by John Rhode ...
    When Pauline Clobury is found murdered in the dark and the rain near the gate of Prior’s Farm, suspicion centers on her young husband whom she plans to divorce. But when a new development occurs at the greenhouse of the same estate, both Superintendent James Waghorn, of New Scotland Yard’s CID, and his friend, the veteran Dr. Priestley, decide to visit the scene. What they discover in the formal ... Read more

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  • Body Unidentified

    by John Rhode ...
    Mr. Wedgwood was puzzled. It was odd, he thought, as he looked from his bedroom window, that someone should leave a large closed car in the middle of his front yard, but what confused him even more was the shimmering brilliance it seemed to assume as the sun rose higher. Suddenly the unpleasant truth burst upon him with a shock. It was not a car at all. It was a hearse! Jimmy Waghorn first ... Read more

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  • The Fatal Pool

    by John Rhode ...
    In ''The Fatal Pool,'' the family and friends of Colonel Gayton have gathered together at Framby Hall, and while most of the guests are at breakfast, Yvonne Bardwell is found drowned but with bruises on her shoulders indicating that she was held under the water. The mystery centers around the fact that as nearly the entire household was eating breakfast together, how could one of them have slipped ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Diary

    by John Rhode ...
    The Vanishing Diary (1961) by John Rhode (Miles Burton) is the last installment in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series, featuring Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn. The plot centers on a family dispute over a historic diary, locked in a double-sealed box, which vanishes, followed by the murder of a family member. Test pilot Freddie Hapton becomes involved with the feuding Greystoke family in Alderscar, ... Read more

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  • Death at the Helm

    by John Rhode ...
    Death at the Helm (1941) is a Golden Age detective novel featuring recurring amateur sleuth, Dr. Lancelot Priestley, where Inspector Waghorn investigates the poisoning of two people on a grounded motor cruiser, a complex "howdunnit" rich in botanical details about poisons, set against a backdrop of wartime England. The book is praised for its well-clued puzzle, detailed detection, engaging ... Read more

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  • Death in Wellington Road

    by John Rhode ...
    After a man is found gassed to death in a Cornish coastal resort, Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn takes up the case with the long-distance assistance of his mentor Doctor Priestley in London. Priestley is able to cast doubt on the police's view that the dead man's young housekeeper, now missing, is responsible for the crime. ... Read more

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  • Death Sits on the Board

    by John Rhode ...
    At his residence in Beckenham in Kent on the outskirts of London, Sir Andrew Wiggenhall the chairman of the board of directors of a large firm of ironmongers is killed by an explosion that largely wrecks the house. Investigating officer Superintendent Hanslet is not convinced his death was an accident, particularly when another member of the firm's board is found dead. With the help of Priestley ... Read more

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  • The Secret Meeting

    by John Rhode ...
    The discovery of a seemingly unidentifiable corpse in a shabby block of offices off the Gray's Inn Road in central London inexplicably proves to be linked to the assassination of a member of parliament with secret communist ties on an express train heading northwards. ... Read more

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