Death of Mr. Gantley (Desmond Merrion #4)
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| Title: | Death of Mr. Gantley (Desmond Merrion #4) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1932 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd | ||||||||||
| Tags: | crime, detective, fiction, mystery | ||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Gantley, owner of the “Downhamshire Courier”, is found dead in his car one Monday morning not far from his native town of Carnford. He had been shot through the head. Lady Gantley, Gantley’s sister-in-law, had died suddenly from a heart attack on the Saturday evening, and from her will it appeared that in the event of her death preceding that of Gantley her fortune shall go to her niece and nephew, Charles and Myrtle Harrington. If Gantley died first then her fortune should go to her companion, Sylvia Chadwick, and her brother Percy. Both Inspector Driffield, who is a local man, and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard are baffled by the crime. A lucky meeting with Desmond Merrion brings that skilled investigator into the case, to which he eventually succeeds in supplying a brilliant and surprising solution.—Introduction [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 589 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 172  |
Author Bio for Street, Cecil John Charles
Cecil John Charles Street (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a crime fiction novelist.
He began his military career as an artillery officer and during World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7. During the Irish War of Independence, he acted as an Information Officer for Dublin Castle alternating between Dublin and London and working closely with the British official Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels written under several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton, and Cecil Waye.
John Street wrote three crime detective series; one under the name of John Rhode, mostly featuring the mathematics professor Dr. Lancelot Priestley; another under the name of Miles Burton, mostly featuring the retired naval officer, Desmond Merrion; and a third under the name of Cecil Waye, featuring the Perrins Investigators.
Sources: Wikipedia, classicmystery.blog
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