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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| media_type = Print
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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.
References
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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:Novels by Cecil Street
Category:British mystery novels
Category:British thriller novels
Category:British detective novels
Category:Novels set in Norfolk
Category:Novels about twin brothers
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