The Claverton Mystery

The Claverton Mystery

First Edition (US)
Author	John Rhode
Language	English
Series	Lancelot Priestley
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Collins (UK) Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date	1933
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The Motor Rally Mystery
Followed by	The Venner Crime

The Claverton Mystery is a 1933 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street. ^[1] It is the fifteenth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead with the altered title The Claverton Affair. ^[2] The tone of the book has been described as much darker than the author's other novels. ^[3]

Synopsis

Priestley goes to visit his friend Sir John Claverton at his gloomy house, and shortly afterwards hears that he has died. The dead man's doctor is not convinced it was a natural death, and evidence of poisoning emerges. There are several beneficiaries of the dead man's will.

References

1. Evans p.141
2. Reilly p.1257
3. Evans p.247

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.
• Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.