Dead Men at the Folly
First Edition (US)
AuthorJohn Rhode
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLancelot Priestley
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date
1932
Media typePrint
Preceded byMystery at Greycombe Farm 
Followed byThe 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

A dead body found at the foot of a large folly draws the attention of Hanslet Scotland Yard and with him Doctor Priestley.

References

  1. Evans p.120
  2. 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.


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