Blackthorn House Explained

Blackthorn House is a 1949 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.^{[1] [2]} It is the forty eighth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.^[3]

Synopsis

A man finds that the car he has recently bought is stolen property. Even more alarmingly there is a corpse with a body concealed in it, that links to the country mansion Blackthorn House.

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.
• Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4. Salem Press, 1988.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Magill p.1418
2. Evans p.133
3. Reilly p.1257