Author | John Rhode |
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Language | English |
Series | Lancelot Priestley |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Collins (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1933 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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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]