Death at Dyke's Corner

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Death at Dyke's Corner
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Author E.C.R. Lorac
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChief Inspector MacDonald
GenreDetective
Publisher Collins
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
1940
Media typePrint
Preceded byTryst for a Tragedy 
Followed by Case in the Clinic  

Death at Dyke's Corner is a 1940 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett. [1] [2] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, a Golden Age detective who relies on standard police procedure to solve his cases. [3]

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Synopsis

When a stationary car is struck by an oncoming lorry at a very dangerous hairpin bend known as Dyke's Corner and the driver killed it seems an obvious accident. However, MacDonald's methodical investigations reveal it was in fact a cleverly contrived murder.

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References

  1. Nichols & Thompson p.476
  2. Hubin p.254
  3. Reilly p.260

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