The Davidson Case

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The Davidson Case
First Edition (UK)
AuthorJohn Rhode
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLancelot Priestley
GenreDetective
PublisherGeoffrey Bles (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date
1929
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe House on Tollard Ridge 
Followed byPeril at Cranbury Hall 

The Davidson Case is a 1929 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It was the seventh appearance of the armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Evans p.70
  2. ^ Reilly p.1257

Bibliography[edit]

  • 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.