 American first edition | |
| Author | John Rhode |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Lancelot Priestley |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Collins (UK) Dodd Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1935 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Shot at Dawn |
| Followed by | Hendon's First Case |
The Corpse in the Car is a 1935 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.[1] It is the twentieth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.[2] A review by Ralph Partridge in the New Statesman commented "Mr. Rhode has written a humdrum, workaday book in The Corpse in the Car. He belongs to the English school of Freeman Wills Crofts, with which it is impossible to find technical fault." In The Spectator Rupert Hart-Davis considered that "The Corpse in the Car is greatly inferior to his last book, Shot at Dawn."