Death in the Hopfields

{{Short description|1937 novel}}

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| name = Death in the Hopfields

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| image =File:Death in the Hopfields.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = John Rhode

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Lancelot Priestley

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Collins (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)

| release_date = 1937

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| media_type = Print

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| preceded_by =In Face of the Verdict

| followed_by = Death on the Board

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Death in the Hopfields is a 1937 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.Evans p.126 It is the 25th in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective. It was published in America by Dodd Mead under the alternative title The Harvest Murder.Reilly p. 1257

Caldwell Harpur gave the novel a broadly positive review in the Times Literary Supplement but felt that the murder mystery was so simple that there had really been no need for the local police to need assistance to crack the case.{{cn|date=October 2023}}