Ne'er-Do-Well

Ne'er-Do-Well

1954 dustjacket
Author	Dornford Yates
Genre	Detective novel
Publisher	Ward Lock & Co [1]
Publication date	1954 [1]
Media type	Print
Pages	222 [1]

Ne'er-Do-Well is a 1954 detective novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), his only work of the genre. Although Richard Chandos narrates, the book is not generally classified as a 'Chandos' title.

Plot

Superintendent Falcon investigates the murder of Lord St Amant at the village of Ne'er-do-Well. Much of the story is set in a convent.

Critical reception

Mercer’s biographer AJ Smithers considered the novel to bear the marks of being written by an elderly and not over-robust man, being short on action and concentrating rather on states of mind. ^[2] It was not a commercial success. ^[2]

References

1. "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
2. Smithers 1982, p. 219.

Bibliography

• Smithers, AJ (1982). Dornford Yates. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN   0-340-27547-2.