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back on foot for a considerable distance to retrieve it. When he returns to the car he finds his employer dead, perhaps due to natural causes or possibly due to murder.
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Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961
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of the British writer Cecil Street. It is the twentieth in his long-running series of novels featuring
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on a cold February afternoon. However realising she has forgotten her bag she sends her
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The imperious Lady Misterton goes out for her usual drive in
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commented "Mr. Rhode has written a humdrum, workaday book in
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John Rhode
Lancelot Priestley
Collins
Dodd Mead
United Kingdom
Shot at Dawn
Hendon's First Case
detective novel
John Rhode
pen name
Lancelot Priestley
Golden Age
armchair detective
Ralph Partridge
New Statesman
Freeman Wills Crofts
The Spectator
Rupert Hart-Davis
Shot at Dawn
Windsor Great Park
chauffeur
Stub icon
crime novel
stub
expanding it
See guidelines for writing about novels
talk page
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