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Murder In Crown Passage
''Murder in Crown Passage'' is a 1937 detective novel by the British writer Cecil Street, writing under the pen name of Miles Burton. It is the sixteenth in a series of books featuring the amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. Street was one of the most prolific authors of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It was published in the United States by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday the same year under the alternative title '' The Man with the Tattooed Face''.Reilly p.1259 As often in the series, the setting is in rural England. Synopsis The small country town of Faston Bishop is rocked when a body is discovered in Crown Passage just off the High Street. The man is a casual work, casual labourer recently arrived in the area, but nobody has any idea why anyone should want to murder him. Arnold is called in to investigate and soon seeks the assistance of his fried Merrion. Arnold's attempts to pin the crime on a local couple of shopkeepers, is chall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Street
Cecil John Charles Street (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), who was known to his colleagues, family and friends as John Street, began his military career as an artillery officer in the British Army. During the course of World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7, in which role he held the rank of Major. After the armistice, he alternated between Dublin and London during the Irish War of Independence as Information Officer for Dublin Castle, working closely with Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels. Early life, education, and career Street was born in Gibraltar, son of General John Alfred Street, CB, of Uplands, Woking, and his second wife, Caroline (born circa 1850), daughter of Charles Horsfall Bill, of Storthes Hall, Yorkshire, and The Priory, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, head of a landed gentry family. Caroline had married comparatively late, in 1881, and her only son was born when she was thirty five. General Street, havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
