The Telephone Call (novel)

{{Short description|1948 novel by John Rgode}}

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| name = The Telephone Call

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| caption = First edition

| author = John Rhode

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Lancelot Priestley

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Geoffrey Bles (UK)
Dodd Mead (US)

| release_date = 1948

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| media_type = Print

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| preceded_by =The Paper Bag

| followed_by = Blackthorn House

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The Telephone Call is a 1948 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.Magill p. 1418.Evans p. 133. It is the forty-seventh 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 Shadow of an Alibi.Reilly p. 1257. It is based on the real-life Wallace Case of 1931 in which William Herbert Wallace was convicted of murdering his wife Julia, a conviction which was later overturned on appeal.Evans p. 93.