Up the Garden Path (novel)

{{Short description|1949 novel}}

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| name = Up the Garden Path

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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 = 1949

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| media_type = Print

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| preceded_by =Blackthorn House

| followed_by = The Two Graphs

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Up the Garden Path is a 1949 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.Magill p.1418Evans p.134 It is the forty ninth 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 Fatal Garden.Reilly p.1257 Reviewing the novel in The Observer, Maurice Richardson concluded "Mr. Rhode has lost very little of his grip."