The Two Graphs

{{Short description|1950 novel}}

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| 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 = 1950

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| preceded_by =Up the Garden Path

| followed_by = Family Affairs

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The Two Graphs is a 1950 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.Magill p.1418Evans p.134 It is the fiftieth 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 Double Identities.Reilly p.1257 Writing in The Observer Maurice Richardson noted a "slight slackening of tension towards the finish but an excellent specimen of Rhode’s later period."

Synopsis

In the Norfolk Broads one of a pair of identical twin brothers drowns, but it is not clear which one. Matters are further complicated when the surviving twin is poisoned.

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Bibliography

  • Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
  • Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 4. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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Category:1950 British novels

Category:Novels by Cecil Street

Category:British crime novels

Category:British mystery novels

Category:British thriller novels

Category:British detective novels

Category:Geoffrey Bles books

Category:Novels set in Norfolk

Category:Novels about twin brothers

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