| Ask a Policeman | |
| Author: | E.C.R. Lorac |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chief Inspector MacDonald |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Release Date: | 1955 |
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| Preceded By: | Let Well Alone |
| Followed By: | Murder in Vienna |
Ask a Policeman is a 1955 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.[1] [2] It is the forty first in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard.[3] Published by the Collins Crime Club, the title references the popular music hall song Ask a Policeman.
An elderly lady, a leftover from the Edwardian era, reports the disappearance of her nephew, a journalist. What seems at first a routine case quickly becomes a hunt for a murderer when the police investigate his last known address, a large rambling house in St John's Wood. Efforts to discover the truth are further hampered by the death or disappearance of several witnesses.