They Watched by Night
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Author | John Rhode |
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Language | English |
Series | Lancelot Priestley |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1941 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Death at the Helm |
Followed by | The Fourth Bomb |
They Watched by Night is a 1941 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1][2] It is the thirty fifth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.[3] It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead with the alternative title Signal for Death.[4]
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.
- Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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- 1941 British novels
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- British crime novels
- British mystery novels
- British detective novels
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- Novels set in England
- Novels set during World War II
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