Tenant for Death

Tenant for Death
AuthorCyril Hare
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Mallett
GenreDetective
PublisherFaber and Faber
Dodd, Mead (US)
Publication date
1937
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Followed byDeath Is No Sportsman 

Tenant for Death is a 1937 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare.[1] His debut novel, it was a reworking of a play Murder in Daylesford Gardens had written. It introduced his first detective character Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard who recurs through Hare's novels including in the series featuring the lawyer and amateur detective Francis Pettigrew.[2] In style Mallett resembles Chief Inspector French, created by Freeman Wills Crofts.[3]

  1. ^ Reilly p.730
  2. ^ Magill p.842
  3. ^ 731