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Blackthorn House

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Blackthorn House
First edition (UK)
AuthorJohn Rhode
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLancelot Priestley
GenreDetective
PublisherGeoffrey Bles (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date
1949
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Telephone Call 
Followed byUp 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

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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

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  1. ^ Magill p.1418
  2. ^ Evans p.133
  3. ^ Reilly p.1257

Bibliography

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  • 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.