The Silver Sickle Case

{{Short description|1938 novel}}

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| author = Lynn Brock

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Sergeant Venn

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Collins Crime Club

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The Silver Sickle Case is a 1938 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Lynn Brock.The New Statesman and Nation, Volume 15. Statesman and Nation Publishing Company, 1938 p.178Hubin p.49 Best known for his Colonel Gore series of mysteries, the novel introduced an alternative detective character Sergeant Venn of Scotland Yard assisted by Detective Constable Kither.The Spectator, Volume 160. F.C. Westley, 1938. p.192 It was followed by two sequels.Reilly p.198-99