The Paddington Mystery

* Legendary 'Golden Age of Crime' author John Rhode's first-ever Dr Priestley crime novel.* 'A Dr Priestley story is always an event for armchair sleuths' NEW YORK TIMES. * 'John Rhode must hold the record for the invention of ingenious forms of murder' THE SUNDAY TIMES. When Harold Merefield returns home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive party at popular nightclub Naxos he is startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed is lying a corpse. When suspicion is cast...
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* Legendary 'Golden Age of Crime' author John Rhode's first-ever Dr Priestley crime novel.* 'A Dr Priestley story is always an event for armchair sleuths' NEW YORK TIMES. * 'John Rhode must hold the record for the invention of ingenious forms of murder' THE SUNDAY TIMES. When Harold Merefield returns home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive party at popular nightclub Naxos he is startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed is lying a corpse. When suspicion is cast onto Harold he turns to the enigmatic mathematician and forensic investigator Dr Priestley to help clear his name. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Rhode was the pseudonym for the author Cecil Street, one of the best-selling and most popular British authors of the Golden Age of Crime. His most famous literary creation was Dr Lancelot Priestley, a forensic detective who featured in seventy-two novels written over forty years, solving many ingenious and misleading murders. Cecil Street was born in 1884 in Gibraltar to a military family. At sixteen he attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He served with distinction in the First World War and then in military intelligence before taking up writing full-time. He was a founding member of the Detection Club, the illustrious dining club of detective story writers, and created the famous 'Eric the Skull' used in the rituals of the organisation. He would write over 140 detective novels (writing also as Miles Burton and Cecil Waye) and died aged 80, in 1964. PRAISE FOR JOHN RHODE: 'Scientific investigator, Dr Priestley, is one of the most satisfactory successors to Sherlock Holmes' NEW YORK TIMES; 'Standing in the front rank of those who write detective fiction' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT; 'Any murder planned by John Rhode is bound to be ingenious' THE OBSERVER; 'One always embarks on a John Rhode book with a great feeling of security. One knows that there will be a sound plot, a well-knit process of reasoning and a solidly satisfying solution with no loose ends or careless errors of fact' DOROTHY L SAYERS; 'John Rhode never lets you down. A carefully worked out plot, precise detection, with no logical flaws or jumping to conclusions, and enough of character and atmosphere to carry the thing along' FRANCIS ILES; 'He may well claim the title of Public Brain Tester No. 1' E.R. PUNSHON, THE GUARDIAN.