| Death Makes a Prophet | |
| Author: | John Bude |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Detective Inspector Meredith |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Macdonald |
| Release Date: | 1947 |
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| Followed By: | Dangerous Sunlight |
Death Makes a Prophet is a 1947 detective novel by the British author John Bude, the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore.[1] [2] In 2017 it was reissued by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of republished crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
In Welworth Garden City in Hertfordshire a growing cult has gathered members, but a power dispute has broken out between the founder and a charismatic newcomer. During a summer rally at the country estate of one of its wealthiest and most prominent members, a double murder takes place with the High Prophet of the movement amongst the dead.