Bury Him Darkly Explained

Bury Him Darkly
Author:	Henry Wade
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Poole
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Constable
Release Date:	1936
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	Constable Guard Thyself
Followed By:	Lonely Magdalen

Bury Him Darkly is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade.^[1] It was the fourth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole.^[2] Along with the following Poole novel, Lonely Magdalen, it marked a shift towards more realistic police procedurals that has been described as pioneering.^[3] Superintendent Fraser, who appeared in Wade's fist novel The Verdict of You All, also appears as one of the characters.

Synopsis

A robbery at a jewellers in Bond Street goes wrong, leaving a nightwatchman dead. Police follow up various lines of inquiry.

Bibliography

• Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• 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.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Reilly p.1422
2. Herbert p.205
3. Evans p.34